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...supper in the Varsity Club a large cake, with the inscription, "Congratulations, Skipper," was brought in and set before the prospective bridegroom, who will marry in December...
...Three girls left to go home after a day and a half in camp. The director said nothing-just let them go. That noon a delicious Sunday dinner was served, consisting of chicken and dumplings, potatoes, salad, hot rolls, green beans and ice cream and cake for dessert. About half an hour after dinner the three slipped back into the camp and came up to the director. 'Please, we want to come back. We think it's pretty swell here...
Told to increase her weight by at least 40 Ib. before she plays plump Queen Victoria in Manhattan this winter, Helen, Hayes ate her first birthday cake in 15 years, proudly announced that she already weighs 103 lb., said. 'I want to be luscious-luscious...
...been directed toward making Italy more self-sufficient, Guarneri noted that these will now reduce the effectiveness of sanctions. "I might paraphrase Marie Antoinette," said he with a wry smile. "The Queen's notion was that if the people could not have bread they might have to eat cake and Italians may have to wear natural silk, of which Italy produces plenty, instead of cotton, of which we produce little or none. Having electrified many of our railways, the coal saved is now going into the bunkers of troop ships. We are pinched today. But it is a choice...
...took an intolerable attitude toward Japanese smugglers who have been operating on so huge a scale that rice-tax receipts at Swatow have fallen from $400,000 per month to $12,000. Boldly the supervisor ordered seized vast quantities of smuggled Japanese and Korean imports, which include rice, bean-cake, bean-oil, cotton piece goods, sugar and cement. Last week the commander of the ten Japanese destroyers, which came zipping into Swatow and proceeded to indulge in spectacular searchlight drills every night, demanded that the smuggled goods be returned to the Japanese smugglers and that all Swatow duties on such...