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HRANAHEE! A pandemonium of sirens, alarm bells and whistles brought all Warsaw business to a stop, just before Chancellor Hitler received in Berlin the new Polish "Goodwill Minister," suave M. Jozef Lipski. WHAM! Enemy planes scored direct hits on Warsaw's main railway station with confetti bombs as station employes touched off cannon crackers and released a flock of pigeons. Clang! Clang! Fire engines dashed through Warsaw to pretend to put out fires which blazed on the roofs struck by confetti bombs. The crackling, roaring flames were real but they belched from flame pots always under control...
...generally rated as lower than the Military Cross, which is the officer's decoration corresponding to the Military Medal for other ranks. The D.S.O. fell into disrepute during the late War-as indeed what decoration except the V.C. did not?-for it was issued to field commanders like confetti at a carnival, fr>r successes earned by N.C.O.'s and gloriously anonymous privates of the P.B.I. (Poor Bloody Infantry). The common procedure for incompetent colonels was to give them a D.S.O. and send them back to England...
...procession of automobiles, with Mussolini & Balbo riding in the first one, took the officers & crew into Rome along Streets carpeted with laurel branches. A continuous blizzard of flowers and confetti all but buried the cavalcade. At the Piazza Colonna General Balbo made a speech: "We are humble soldiers of the great chief in whose name it is sweet and easy to win victory...
...clock--Graduates and the three lower classes march to the Sadium exercises, which will include the ivy oration, the "confetti battle...
...surprised to hear that a Danbury woman said: "They started to have one for us, but my husband went out and sent them off to the saloon." In Newport, N. H.: "I went to one or two when I was a kid. Now they rice 'em up and confetti 'em up." In Hartland, Conn.: " 'Member when we serenaded. Drinked up three gallon...