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...deplore the law compelling me to fine young men for the natural and healthy act of rolling down their bathing suits to the waist," declared Judge Stafford. "The day is coming when Australians will regard a loin cloth a sufficient covering and when young men will be proud to display fine, manly, suntanned figures...
...LONDON, May 8 (U. P.) Certain Americans are 'buying British babies like cloth over the counter,' the Sunday Express said today. 'The reason is that since the War the United States is eager to have British blood to improve her stock,' the newspaper said, quoting the price for babies at from $175 to $350 each. The newspaper gave few details but said wealthy Americans were making the purchases, insisting that the babies come from good families. 'One man offered $3,500 for a really blue-blooded baby,' the story said...
...Maurois biographical writing is a method of escape. Emile Herzog (he adopted the pseudonym since his first book, a war novel, was published while he was still an officer in the French army) was destined for the role of a "chef d'industrie" in his father's cloth factory in Elbeuf. But an active business career did not interest him. He turned novelist and for a while he was known as the "humorous author of a pair of war books." That was hardly satisfactory, but "from the entanglement of passion we escape by action." Action: where was it? Mr. Maurois...
...Latin word Durabo (I will last). It was raffled off for 3,000 lire (about $150). Poet d'Annunzio. now practically toothless, bald as an egg, also contributed his War cigarets (bought by a nephew of Il Duce for 1,500 lire - about $75), a piece of cloth on which he had painted a design "with a violent hand." and a bewitched bird. Interviewed upon landing at Rotterdam, bushy-haired Albert Einstein remarked: "Nice people, those Americans. . . . When some one is dead in America, he does not exist any more. No one talks . . . about him. Sometimes the Americans...
Japanese schoolgirls, fragile as butterflies, small as pixies, must not faint at sight of blood. To test their courage seven Tokyo high school girls gathered last week around a white cloth in the centre of which they had drawn a circle. After a solemn soprano chant the maidens pricked their fingers deeply, held them over the circle until it grew red and the cloth became the flag of Japan. This flag the seven schoolgirls dispatched to Crown Prince Chichibu's crack 3rd Regiment which is part of the Imperial forces still holding Shanghai...