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...hand, and Stalinism on the other. At the time of the British Coal Strike (which precipitated the British General Strike of 1927), its leaders cried, "Thank God for Moscow!" and received through the Bank of England from the Soviet State Bank some $2,000,000. That shower of gold was "Trotskyism." The British General Strike fizzled. Stalin, the practical vowed to stop wasting Russia's money thus and concentrated all energies upon building up his Soviet Union at home...
Near Colfax last fortnight an L. & A. freight was wrecked, five cars derailed. Outside Alexandria a shower of bullets spattered the Shreveport-New Orleans Hustler, smashed a Pullman window, narrowly missed a passenger. At Winnfield birthplace of Huey Long, a howling pistolwaving, rock-throwing mob besieged a tramload of Louisiana State University football rooters returning to Baton Rouge after a game with the University of Arkansas at Shreveport. Train guards ordered all lights out. The passengers were forced to lie on the aisle floors for hours, keep up their courage by sucking at flasks until local police drove...
...house like a four-year-old looking for the Christmas tree, deliriously screaming. "Godfrey, Godfrey, hide them if you've got them, the cope are coming!" Later she plunges about in furious joy, convinced that Godfrey loves her because he put her, dressed in evening clothes, into the cold shower. But, there being no intention to slight that genius of suavity, William Powell, it must be conceded that none other could preserve the impeccable dignity that characerizes him throughout the picture, and gives rise to the hilarious contrast. Alice Brady is perfect as the index of what Carole's madness...
...catholicity in taste. If a Denver student dunks his doughnut in his coffee back home he should by all means dive in to his wrist at the Union breakfasts. If one from Pass Christian likes to hang blankets over his fireplace and sing "Empty Saddles" in the shower, all the frowns of an Eastern roommate should not strip his walls or silence his matutinals. He, after all, is the "typical Harvard...
...Perilous Showers. Dr. Hans Jacob Behrend of Manhattan considers cold showers perilous. Said he: "Those in robust health and with good circulation can overcome the strain engendered by the cold shower. But those less fortunate, particularly weak, anemic and older people, may suffer serious damages as a result of it. Colds, feebleness and fatigue are some of the harmful effects of the cold shower habit. . . . I would not advise any one to take a cold shower...