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...Moscow is on "iron rations" of food, clothing, shoes; but in remote, unheard-of-cities, in "strategic centres of production" such as Azbest, Magneto-gorsk and Dnieprostroy (see map), the diarist found abundant food, clothing and shoes for the new pampered aristocracy of toil...
...some Soviet timber is cut by "forced labor," but of a peculiar kind. Diarist Knickerbocker reported that these cutters appear to receive the same wages as other Soviet woodsmen. They are forced not to chop wood but to live in certain forest regions where such labor is the only sort in demand...
...Antonio, Tex., he obtained from an anonymous chance acquaintance a diary purporting to be written by one of four German hirelings who dynamited the Cyclops on the high seas. Excerpts from the diary told how charges had been set in the ship's engineroom, how the diarist and one accomplice had escaped in a small boat and were rescued by a German vessel, how the fugitives and German crew meticulously destroyed all traces of the Cyclops after the explosion...
...futility of answering a diarist so long gathered to his fathers as Baron Dalberg makes it possible for Harvard to rest its case upon the ideas of Mr. Benn, the youngest seizer of the forch that the Baron once wielded. It is sufficient to say that the predictions of the Baron have been fulfilled, but in most curious fashion. It has probably happened, as the Baron suggested it might, out of a kind of vanity. Whatever the impetus, it is a fact that learning is desirable at Harvard, and yet that curiously enough, fewer men have leisure than ever before...
...Queen's Husband. As diarist of an unidentified king, discovered last week acting oddly upon the stage of a Manhattan theatre, Robert Emmet Sherwood develops ramifications. He sets up a satire on royalty, gilds it with hot romance and stripes the second act with melodrama. One hears an undertone of Bolshevism and unmistakable echoes of the derision that dogged Queen Marie across our country. Mr. Sherwood dares destroy any trace of consistency by marrying off his Princess to her plumber's son at the end with as glossy a happy ending as ever was pasted on the movies which...