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...Republic of Haiti was itself again last week. The mid-summer plague of butterflies fluttered down on the custard apple trees. And in a curt ceremony at Port-au-Prince command of the Haitian army passed from Lieut.-Colonel Clayton B. Vogel of the U. S. Marine Corps to a native colonel named Demosthenes P. Calixte. After 19 years of being ruled from Washington, the Republic of Haiti at last had a crack army of 2,500 men without a single U.S. officer. Last week 275 U.S. Marines sailed away. The rest were due to leave next week...
Most encouraging evidence that the jazz epoch has become history is the improved quality of the current radio broadcasts. Not that the ether is purged to a dull intellectualism, as those who have listened to recipes for cheese custard, and Swedish discuses, will be the first to deny. We still have our "mauvaises quatres d'heure" of advertising belch, Irish minstrels, and Poet Princes...
...Custard. Custard is this. It has aches, aches when. Not to be. Not to be narrowly. This makes a whole little hill...
...first two days of a race, I find, are the hardest; after that I get accustomed to it. But we have to eat a tremendons amount to keep us going. My average diet per day is about four steaks, eight or ten lamb chops, and lots of milk, custard, salad, and vegetables. We only get from two and a half to three hours of sleep...
...famed for lavender shirts, long telegrams, long-distance telephone calls, frequent unreasonableness. He sent a long complaining telegram to Fannie Brice because she left his Follies a month before she was to have a baby. He owned six custard-colored Rolls-Royces, hunted in Canada with five Indian guides, traveled in a private railroad car, kept a private barber and a succession of private chefs. His favorite food was terrapin. Pressagents complained because he telephoned them at 7 a. m. When a big news story broke the day he sailed for Europe, his name failed to appear on the first...