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Dates: during 1920-1929
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While Daughter Alicia napped and Publisher Patterson read Spanish papers, the amphibian proceeded to Port-au-Prince, Haiti. Waspish U. S. Army pursuit planes rose to greet it. Luncheon was served amid bougainvillea blooms, mango trees, pomegranates. From the air the party later saw the craggy citadel where Blackamoor Christophe. self-appointed Henri I of Haiti, once dared Napoleon to come and get him. They saw the ruins of his palace of Sans Souci where the ebony ruler, stricken twice with paralysis, split his weary brain with a golden bullet from a jeweled pistol. They descended to visit the castle...
Pilot Becker, ill, was quarantined in Port-au-Prince. The rest went to Panama, inspected submarine bases, game preserves, laboratories, spied on the canal from the sky. After ten days Pilot Becker, convalescent, joined his companions in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic. He flew from Port-au-Prince in 90 minutes. The others motored the same distance in nine hours. At the capitol they were wined and dined by President Horacio Vasquez. Later Daughter Alicia went bathing, kicked a sea porcupine which retaliated with a dozen barbs to the foot. A native Indian shaman extracted most of them with...
...Invitation au Voyage. Jean Jacques Bernard, who wrote the Civic Repertory's second opening qf the week, believes in suggestion rather than explanation as the most potent method of emphasizing subtle meanings. The heroine of his play is a complexed lady who, fatigued by her husband, forms a fixation for a businessman whom she had disregarded until he departed from France for the Argentine. During his absence, she worships him and lives at war with her neighbours; when he returns from South America, she is compelled, by comparing her mental image with reality, to curtail her adoration...
Specifically marked for the application of La Terreur Feminine, last week, were MM. Les Senateurs Delahaye, Dominique Cuminal, Bienvenu-Martin, Massabuau and Schrameck, "qui sont," read the feminist proclamation, "absolument opposes au principe du vote feminin...
...cannot see why you are putting in so much stuff about the Jews. We all know that they are a noble race; we are told so in the daily papers constantly. But that is no reason-au contraire, I should think-for turning TIME into a Menorah Journal...