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When France fell, Francophile Prince Louis had proclaimed: Monaco must be "an oasis." Eventually the Germans came to Monaco too-at first in mufti to relax in the Prince's fabelhaft (fabulous) Casino and to goggle earnestly at his fabelhaft aquarium. Before they left, they had stripped the great gambling Casino in Monte Carlo of its copper dome, placed ack-ack batteries in the Tir aux Pigeons (one of Europe's famed shooting grounds), sowed mines in the sun-drenched beach. Even now Prince Louis could hear the lethal crump! crump! as Allied engineers exploded the mines...
...Perhaps because of better relations between the children and their supervisors, old names for Mooseheart staff members-sluefoot, screw, night-caller, supreme being, walking tree-have died. An increase of tolerance has presumably caused the disappearance of such words as fish and fisheater (both meaning Catholic), and aquarium (a Catholic priest's home). Also gone are smutch (sneak-out), squirrel (psychologist, i.e., one who looks for "nuts...
...armor. Dr. von Bonde became interested in it when he learned that Malay fishermen of Cape Town were in the habit of drying it and hanging it up with a string to determine the direction of coming gales. He hung a Seevarkie in a draft-free room in his aquarium. The nose of the dead, free-swinging fish pointed in a certain direction. Sure enough, winds began to blow from the same direction outdoors shortly thereafter...
...Bonde thereupon took the fish to Cape Town's Youngsfield Aerodrome, where he hung it among modern meteorological instruments. During the next few months, meteorologists will consider every movement of the fish in the light of instrument readings. Dr. von Bonde doubts that his informal aquarium tests really proved "anything definite," but he announced hopefully: "The Seevarkie must have a fair chance to prove its case...
Errol Flynn, well-known Hollywood yachtsman, had a new idea about boats, considered converting a sloop into a floating aquarium...