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...search for concealed arms, undertaken some time ago by the Allied Military Control Mission, has admittedly become a farce. Everywhere the Allied inspectors have been received with studied politeness. Nowhere have they been able to find any trace of concealed arms or munitions. The Mission is satisfied that Germany is not prepared for war, that she has not materially contravened the armament clause of the Versailles Treaty...
...threatens to become an annual, went to press with a great deal of shouting; but when the opening audience read the proofs, their reactions were divided. It was agreed that Earl Carroll had crowded a chaotic beauty into his production that would be hard to match but that his search for mirth and music had been less successful. Joe Cook is again the headlined humorist, but somehow his new material does not make up into so effective a garment of gaiety as did his veteran vaudeville sketches. Sophie Tucker heads the parade of pretties. Miss Tucker is not pretty...
...foot-sore room-seeking students who have spent the last seventy-two hours walking the streets of Cambridge and hounding the Brooks House Information Bureau in search of a suitable abode for the coming year can take on new hope! It was learned today that the college authorities were acquainted with the present situation just two hundred and seven years ago this fall, so something will undoubtedly be done at once to alleviate the difficulty...
...Soviet Chief of Police reached for the code. He read-Article 120- that imprisonment is the punishment for "exploiting the religious prejudices of the masses against the Soviet government and fostering superstition among the masses." Summoning trusty agents of police, he directed them to the village of Pskoff, to search the doings of Priest Troitski, to bring him to justice. At Pskoff the police heard tales. Troitski had an ikon, a painted image of the Blessed Virgin whose tears, copiously shed, performed miracles. One teardrop, applied to a wound, healed it. By virtue of the tears, Lydia Belskaya was cured...
...things go well with the 'third ticket' there will be a permanent 'third party.' Will it need leaders? It will. Senator LaFollette is sick and aging. So Senator Wheeler shoots in the back the party that sent him to the Senate and fares forth in search of new political grass and water-courses...