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...Bermuda samples of Australian wines were stacked ready to be rushed to Manhattan. There are no Australian vintage years because, Australians eagerly explain, "the weather is so perfect that every year is the same." Anxious not to offend the King's subjects down under, the Encyclopædia Britannica puts Australian wines in their place with a maximum of tact: "The plentiful supply of cheap grape brandy makes it possible for Australia to send to England ever increasingly large quantities of fortified wines [i. e. dosed with brandy], wines which being rich in natural grape sweetness...
...victims of the Machado reign of terror knew what was in store for them. They were shot down peacefully in their own homes, like the Freyre de Andrade brothers, or murdered on their doorsteps like Editor Andre of El Dia, or shot from passing automobiles, or rushed without warning to Principe Fortress and tortured to death, or kidnapped by the Porra and lynched. But Gerardo Machado knows what is in store for him. Always hoping to escape, somewhere, somehow, he last week begged and obtained permission to seek refuge in Canada. To confuse those Cuban avengers who will not rest...
...that Gerhardo Machado Morales had nothing to do with the assassination of General Armando Andre. I also know that all of my fellow Canadians would have considered Andre worthy of death, had they seen a filthy cartoon that he had adorned the front page of his Daily Paper. El Dia, with a few days before he was shot: which issue the Government suppressed, and very few saw or even heard of this evidence of his vile imaginations...
...police held back curious spectators. Shiny limousines rolled up, discharging richly dressed socialites. Flash-lamps flared continuously. Inside, the old theatre had changed its aspect completely. A floor had been built over the worn, red plush orchestra chairs. An improvised circle of boxes had been built under the Dia- mond Horseshoe. The scenery for La Rondine had been set up on the stage but the smart New Yorkers who crowded the opera house had no intention of sitting back and listening staidly to a Puccini per- formance. The Metropolitan was housing a ball, modeled after the balls which have occasionally...
...German state the Catholic Party would not hold that balance of power which it now holds in Austria. There is bad blood between Dr. Schober and Monsignor Seipel. It was not by accident that the Foreign Minister waited to spring his surprise until the Monsignor, ailing with pleurisy and dia betes, had gone to Switzerland...