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...yellow, smiling Kurt von Schleicher whose private passions are for French red wine and smoking-car stories, emerged more clearly as the real man at Germany's helm. By last week's decree he was vested with all executive power. Many newspapers wagered that fortnight hence he will be Chancellor of Germany...
Interviewed by U. S. citizens last week Prime Minister Benito Mussolini said: ¶"To me birth control is a crime." (Il Duce has two daughters, three sons.) ¶"Prohibition itself can accomplish nothing. I myself closed 25,000 superfluous wine shops throughout Italy in one year. Moderation is the thing! More good can be done by providing people with good beer and wine and by discouraging cocktails and whiskey than by prohibition...
...sleep at all. For four days from 6 a. m. until long after midnight sleep is next to impossible while Pamplona celebrates the Fiesta of San Fermín, its patron saint. There are bullfights, street dancing, parades of huge grotesque figures, much drinking of strong Spanish wine. But by far the most exciting ceremony-one which takes place only at Pamplona-is the encierro (driving of the bulls...
...Republican Party, in convention assembled in Chicago last week, took an elephantine step Wetward. Definitely deserted was National Prohibition as the G. 0. P. has tacitly endorsed it for the last twelve years. How close to reality the party's new declaration would bring legal beer, wine & spirits remained a matter of opinion, dispute, political contest. The fact in hand was that the Chicago convention gave Wets the substance of a change, Drys the shadow of kind words. The party had pulled on rubber boots to pussyfoot its way through the campaign. Whether this was possible or impossible only...
This must be by way of valedictory. The lanterns are swaying in the quadrangles, new wine has been poured into old, salt washed bottles, girls have bought new dresses. Strange shadows of far off greatness move in the Yard among us, and pause to stare at Holworthy 14. Families have come, fiancees have come, the girl from Cotuit last summer has come, sight unseen they have come. There is music, and silence, and darkness, and a great light, and a throb, and a happy laugh. There is confetti and a band, and tall gentlemen in reds, and blues, and even...