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Happening on a discussion of furniture the Vagabond read further, only to discover that his one Chippendale was not an original but only a distorted image of the Idea of Chippendale. It was too much. The doctrine was dangerous; a threat to every property owner in the state, and a direct challenge to every principle of interior decoration which the Vagabond had gleaned through the open windows of Fogg on a warm spring afternoon...
...League of Nations last week landed a party of scientists in Manhattan to take lessons in ratcatching. The scientists were quarantine and health officers from France, Germany, Great Britain, Holland and Spain, nations whose ships go to the plague-infested Orient and return with a continuous threat of reintroducing the awful Black Death to Europe.? The U. S. has been happily free of plague for a dozen years, because of strict water front precautions. The Europeans were sent to study those precautions at firsthand. Ships carry rats which carry fleas which carry bubonic plague...
...disguises himself, but the police catch him. Bewilderment at his bad luck has addled his wits; he is taken, not to jail this time, but to an asylum. There Death throws him but cannot quite keep him down. When Franz Biberkopf emerges from the shadow of death, and the threat of jail, he is older, wiser than most...
Poland, which mortally hates & fears the U. S. S. R., endorsed the idea heartily. For whereas the Russo-German entente is directed against Poland, an agreement between her ally France and Russia would neutralize the threat...
...greatest force in the world today. I am glad I am alive and I am proud to be an American. But I am even prouder to be a human being; and our nationalism to day, it seems to me, is humanity's great enemy, civilization's greatest threat...