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...down and running over. A Swiss firm, deeming the mark cheaper than waste paper, attempted to import a few billion for conversion into pulp. But the Swiss government objected to the importation of foreign currency in bulk. Switzerland, of course, is a very small country. The world is all agog in expectation of what the mathematical moron will have to say. A dollar's worth of one-mark notes laid end to end ought easily to reach the moon, and a hundred dollars' worth might build a stairway to Paradise...
...similar monster were so current along the American coasts during the last century that the hypothetical beast won the soubriquet of "American Sea-Serpent". Only last year, the repeated tales from South America of a "prehistoric" reptile sporting in the waters of a lake in the Andes, set zoologists agog and even stimulated a searching-party, which has not yet made its report...
...motion pictures have revivified the writer of circus showhills. Once again the family may crowd joyously about the lamp, eyes agog, to read the English language written with a flamboyancy that thrills the dullest. Poor Barnum's "Stupendous and Unparalleled Aggregation of Freaks" fades before this advertisement in a New York Sunday paper...
...scattered sections of the country interest is undoubtedly at fever heat, but due entirely to local conditions. Ohio, for instance, is excited because it claims both candidates. Indiana is agog over the hottest senatorial election in its history. Illinois has a factional war of unusual bitterness. But here in Massachusetts not half so much interest attaches to this campaign as to that a year ago, when the law and order issue which Governor Coolidge brought to the surface in the police strike resulted in the casting of half a million votes. The Bay State apathy may be due almost entirely...
...ears Tuesday night, capturing both. There is no formula that can quite explain the extraordinary fascination of this Comedy of Manners (and a Woman) by that swift satirical genius, Jacinto Benavente. For three acts the little province of Moraleda, Spain, hums with petty intrigue, political and domestic; is agog with sycophancy and scandal; nothing is left out. Beauty and the Bull, colors and shrugs flashing lavishly excited and Latin, speech a sparkle and--everybody throws physic to the dogs. For this, let it be urged, is a DeCanterbury Pilgrimage, and there is Wine, of course. Be calm, and imagine Josefina...