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...injia-rubber idiot on the spree...
...Ryndam steamed from Manhattan, a "floating university" carrying 450 students, males, females (TIME, Sept. 27). Until two weeks ago, classes, lectures, excursions proceeded with fitting decorum. Then, at Yokohama, five students slipped down a hawser, escaped to nearby Tokyo, and put on there a drinking and "necking" spree at the Imperial Hotel. . . . By a vote of the Student Council aboard the Ryndam escapaders were promptly expelled, packed off for the U. S. on a returning steamer as the Ryndam steamed serenely...
...just issued his mild endorsement of the cake-eater. Henry Wilton, pompous, ultra-puritanical pillar of the community suffers an attack of amnesia. With all inhibitions medically banished into oblivion, he proceeds to bedazzle himself in loud golf clothes, flirt with boarding house girls, reel off on a drunken spree, precipitate a brawl in the country club, and in other ways prove himself at heart a real, human personality. As a result of this exhibition, he finds himself, on recovery, a nominee for Congress. Evidently, Congress is Mr. Wilton's idea of the ne plus ultra, for he decides...
...conservative, one J. Sexton, M. P., remarked some what redundantly: "This is a thinly veiled attempt to pledge this conference to Communism." The Congress, however, cavorted after its spree of conservation; adapted the "shop committee" measure...
...Rosa Luxemburg, Polish Jewess, leader of the extreme radicals in the attempted Spartacus revolt was pounded to death by the rifle butts of soldiers when the revolution failed in January, 1919. Her body was thrown into the River Spree...