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...welshing, holders of Government gold-clause bonds were to be offered an immediate chance to exchange their securities for 1) otherwise identical non-gold-clause bonds, or 2) cash at par. This was a plain invitation by the Government to the public: If you are afraid of inflation, cask your bonds now and use the money to hoard commodities or anything else you think will protect yon from inflation. Little danger did the Treasury run of the public's demanding $10,000,000,000. Any bondholder who wants cash can do far better by selling his Federal securities...
...stepped into the big station plaza a roar of "Banzai!" from 20,000 Japanese throats made his controlled face work, his toothbrush mustache jump up & down. The Emperor sent him a cask of sake (rice wine) and a case of fish, had him to luncheon at the Imperial Palace. To his countrymen Matsuoka's statements were a model for homecoming Japanese statesmen...
August Janssen, the Dutch restaurateur who owes much of his fame to the slogan "Janssen Wants to See You,'' has had two great disappointments in his profitable life. One came with Prohibition when the chimes which accompanied the broaching of a cask of beer were stilled. The other was when his son Werner refused his offer of $250,000 to give up a musical career. When Werner Janssen left Dartmouth he took a $3-a-night job playing the piano in Leo Reisman's band in Boston. He drifted to Manhattan, conducted in cinemansions, wrote popular tunes...
...built, and in its basement a genuine Altdeutscher Rathskeller. In the old days, Wisconsin beer-drinkers frequented the Hausmann brewery in Madison. Its bar is now in the new Rathskeller, a strictly masculine sanctuary on whose walls are painted Heidelberg students brandishing steins, a fat monk on a wine cask, a bartender with Speise-und-Getränke Karten, a motto: Des Lebens Sonnenschein ist trinken, lieben, fröhlich sein ("Life's sunshine is to drink, to love, to be merry"). At first the Rathskeller had another bit of Munich realism - a six-inch layer of sawdust...
...brain feels as though a hammer were pounding on the skull, or as though a drill were grinding into the bone. Or an iron hoop seems to tighten around the head. Or the bones of the skull seem about to burst apart like the staves of an overfilled cask. Usually the sickening pain stays to one side of the head. ("Migraine" comes from Latin hemicrania, "half-head.") With many victims the pain shifts around, may even travel down to the neck, shoulders, arms. The skin, particularly the scalp, may be unusually sensitive. Touch, sound, sight vex the victim...