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...vexed have Afghan males grown at the European pants into which they have been put (TIME, Sept. 10) that last week a large portion of the army revolted, seized the capital, Kabul, and chased King Amanullah with Queen Thuraya to an outlying fort, where they took refuge with loyal troops...
...intention of the devil that the forester should show that he had lost even the virtue of mercy by killing Mima for her crimes. The forester refused to do this, restrained by the little grain of goodness that remains in mortals, however debased they may be grown. The devil's machine, a failure, tottered and crumpled all over the stage and Janos, the forester, escaped through it, back to his wife who was waiting dinner for him. Interesting and incredible, the play was chiefly remarkable for the stage devices it contained; stage devices, since the invention of the cinema...
...instead, where ex-condemned on escaping would return on their own volition because the "grub" was so good. 'The State Prison was transformed from a place of horror' to where the convicts were fed on Kansas flour instead of the soft indigestible (4 out of 5) local grown wheat which was good enough for the poor damn ranchers who only paid the taxes. 'His splendid system of roads are famous' for the political organizations he made out of the road camps. In these he made the slight error this year of making the tithe too heavy...
...Mother Superior gave her her first singing lessons; in Graz that she sang first in public-the contralto part in Beethoven's Ninth Symphony-earned $6 that bought a second-hand canary cage and the first white curtains that the Rosslers ever had. In Vienna young Ernestine, nearly grown up, tried first for opera but the director said "Mein Gott, what a face!" suggested a sewing machine. Only the roughneck father was glad. His Tini should have a decent career. But she fooled him, went to Dresden, brought back a contract signed by the King...
...grown-ups make as much fuss as they please over their Savings Clubs and last-minute-shopping rushes; Christmas remains always a children's festival that no adult can thoroughly appreciate. Other holidays, decreed in all solemnity by the powers that be in honor of birthdays or battles, are occasions enough for the elders to take a day off and indulge in parades and other pleasant diversions. The youngest generations wait for the last of the yearly series to come into their own. To be sure, they seize upon such opportunities as the Fourth of July and Thanksgiving, with sufficient...