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...word "wine", so objectionable to sensitive souls of today, has been changed to "raisin-cake" in a new Bible published by Charles Scribner's Sons. To further the good work of Scriptural regeneration, the Uplift Societies must now get busy upon certain other errata in the texts which, though not so demoralizing as the wine passages, are nevertheless capable of improvement. Joseph's narrow escape from Mrs. Potiphar, for example, might be changed--indeed must be changed to read as follows...
Conflicts between Socialists and Communists took place in Paris at two meetings. At one, Millionaire Deputy Leon Blum, Socialist, was hit in the face by a wine glass and knocked practically senseless. Several of M. Blum's colleagues were also roughly treated. A Communist, armed with the legbone of an ox, stamped around the meeting room, shouted that he wanted "the whole world to bleed...
...prophet protesting against Hinduism on the one hand and Muhammadanism on the other. His name was Nanak. He taught that God was neither Allah nor Ram, but simply God. He rejected the Hindu idols, caste-system, concremation of widows (suttee), pilgrimages to sacred rivers (TIME, Feb. 9). He forbade wine, tobacco, infanticide. His essential difference from Christianity was a belief in transmigration and fatalism...
...Trotzky is temperamentally a dictator who believes himself destined to rule the world. Zinoviev is a gay liver, a lover of wine, champagne and good cheer. He has suffered a lot and knew privation in his youth; and now abandons himself licentiously to pleasures. The dancers of the old Russian ballet and the beautiful women of Leningrad are flattered to be the friends of Zinoviev. Being very generous, nothing is too precious for his friends. Pearl necklaces, Imperial jewels, famous paintings, Gobelin tapestries are to be found today in the hands of the women who enjoy Zinoviev's friendship...
...municipal court has ruled that selling "decent wine" is to be distinguished from dealing out bad moonshine, in that it merits only half as large a fine. The effect of this decision on the liquor law is still uncertain, but the same principle might profitably be incorporated into college policy...