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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Royal Spanish "squirt bench," was soused by streams of water from concealed nozzles (TIME, May 30, 1927). Recently Naples learned of an elaborate joke which Crown Prince Umberto has been playing off & on at night ever since he and his Belgian-born Crown Princess moved into their ancient but gorgeously refurbished palace overlooking Naples' blue...
Because Americans, Englishmen, Germans, Dutchmen, Swedes, Lithuanians, Poles, Danes, Armenians, Serbians, Greeks, Estonians, Syrians, Letts, Icelanders, Norwegians and especially the Japanese think it is effeminate, many a modern Frenchman has abandoned the ancient & honorable Gallic custom of greeting friends with a resounding kiss on the cheek or jaw. So widespread has become the custom of shaking hands in France that last week the august L Académic de Médecine was asked for an opinion. Weightily the Academic considered, then over the voluble opposition of a youthful minority delivered these decisions: 1) the country man's hands...
...leased line headquarters never moved is that of Vermont & Massachusetts Railroad which has a total trackage of 73.36 mi. and has been leased to Boston & Maine ("Line of the Minute Man"), since 1874. The office is in Room No. 12, Third Floor, of the ancient building at No. 53 Devonshire St., Boston. No changes have been made since the road was leased, the office has no typewriters or telephones in it. On dark days the gloomy office is illuminated by a two-burner gas jet. The annual report is read from a sheet of foolscap and the ballots for election...
...rich, regular and unexciting member of the German Catholic Centre Party, the party led today by ex-Chancellor Heinrich BrÜning. When President von Hindenburg dropped BrÜning, who had been his protege, the German military camarilla which had maneuvered BrÜning out suggested von Papen to the ancient President, who made him his new protege...
...spots of typhus fever and of typhoid fever often look alike and account for an ancient confusion of the two distinct diseases. There is a simple way to distinguish between the two. When pressed down by a piece of glass, typhoid spots disappear from sight completely. Typhus spots when similarly squeezed become pale but do not disappear...