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...vent in less holy carnage on the Black Sea coast. But it must be tedious for the more peaceful Moslems to spend their mornings in detailed perusal of statute books, lost a life be at stake in the crease of a trouser leg or the tilt of a hat brim...
While political amateurs bore the world with analyses of Rivera, Mussolini and Pangalos, Mustapha Komal Pasha, magic enchanter who affixed the brim to the fez and drew the vell from the fact of Turkish womankind, goes unheralded and unsung, as if social traditions were not a thousand times more difficult to upset than political dicta...
...Holy Year pilgrims packed in the great basilica of St. Peter's, the five new cardinals heard Pius XI order from his raised throne: "Accipe galerum rubrum!" (Take the red hat!), and each had held over his head by a master of ceremonies the low-crowned, wide, curled-brim red hat of the cardinal. Brother cardinals caught them by the elbows and kissed them on both cheeks; the queerly plump Sistine choir sang; His Holiness departed; all cardinals adjourned to sing a Te Deum; the happy audience departed...
Would the Commissioner retire from Government Service? The answer seemed likely to be an emphatic affirmative ; for, when General Andrews, no admirer of Mr. Haynes, has completed his reorganization scheme (TIME, Aug. 3), the latter is sure to find his cup of humiliation filled to the brim. So thought competent observers...
Best of all were the good spirits that pervaded the entire production. Brim-full of enthusiasm, skill, and speed, the players, singers, and dancers in "Dixie to Broadway" got their stuff across to the last row; the audience was only too glad to come back with a glad hand...