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...letters that a cold and wintry clime tends to discourage the poetic spirit, and that many a melodious bard in embryo has been frozen to an early silence by inclement weather. Shelley, Keats, and Byron, they say, flew like birds from foggy England to a land where pomegranates bloom at Christmas, and so must all young men who seek the favor of the Muses. Be this as it may, however, it is an undoubted and indisputable fact that the lines proudly gleaming in print below were inspired by the pedestrial slushiness Cambridge has suffered of late. Whatever their poetical pretensions...
...Germany they were allowed to attend special Purim plays, advertise the feast in street cars. In Manhattan Mayor LaGuardia was given a basket of Purim figs, dates and wines sent by German refugees in Palestine. A message from President Roosevelt to the Jews was read by Congressman Sol Bloom on a nationwide broadcast...
Sports events did booming business. Dog tracks at Miami were crowded every night. The thoroughbreds and oleanders were in full bloom at Joe Widener's Hialeah Park where pari-mutuel betting was averaging $250,000 a day. With little more than half the Hialeah racing season completed the State of Florida had already collected over $200,000 in taxes on betting and admissions-$50,000 more than last year. Crowds swarmed to Henry L. Doherty's Miami-Biltmore horseshow at Tropical Park to see an Army jumping team from Fort Riley beat Forts Myer, Sill, Benning, McPherson...
...Authoress Baum has enough gusto to invest even tinselly happenings with glamour, though her sugary Teutonic melodrama should be taken with a heaping teaspoonful of salt. Donka Morescu, who had been a star of the silent cinema, was just staging a last comeback. Her beauty was at its fullest bloom, her ambition straining at the traces. Donka was happy. Her lover was Oliver Dent, Hollywood's greatest star, at the peak of his career. Until their work separated them their affair was as smooth as celluloid. While Oliver tried to rest before his next picture, Donka slaved, had little...
Perhaps the Bloom type are found only in cities of a certain type. What type can it be? I was raised in a very large one and knew of few Blooms. At that rate, the denizens of Joyce's pages are not going to teach us life...