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...This was a jovial pun, for the Mayor's guest was no other than the Allied ace of aces, destroyer of the Boche terror Herr Wisseman, avenger of famed Ace Guynemer, M. le Capitaine Rene Fonck, late of the French Cigognes ("Storks," crack escadrille). He had called to explain more or less formally that he was about to fly across the Atlantic, starting from Roosevelt Field, L. I. The Man. In uniform, Captain Fonck is heavily encrusted with medals, palms and citations, as befits the youngest (aged 31) officer of the Legion of Honor, the "D'Artagnan...
...salesmen to explain what we mean-Dodge Brothers...
...another card of Hiltonshurley Moggs, thrown away by a thirsty rumdum to whom Mr. Moggs had given a pint of whiskey instead of a dole. It looked to Kendrick like a good little story. It became an epic. Ruth Pudley's bright-haired presence is even simpler to explain. She was "busted" out of Bryn Mawr for "deplorable contumacy of conduct." She was ready to divorce or annul, her clerical father, "the meanest man in the world." "He practises slurping his soup," she said, "so he can do it louder and louder. He dunks his toast in his coffee...
...Austen's pet scheme for abridging this difficulty is a World Court Conference called by the League of Nations (TIME, April 12, THE LEAGUE) ; but to which the U. S. has refused to send a delegate to "explain" the Senate's reservations (TIME, May 3, THE LEAGUE...
...Court Conference will meet in Geneva coincident with the regular September League Assembly, and will presumably crystalize international opinion on the U. S. reservations. Since the Senate's conditions for adherence are somewhat ail-inclusively vague, and since no U. S. representative will be present to explain or defend them, the usual European barrage of recrimination may be expected to burst forth...