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...Vagabond is feeling particularly uneasy this morning, but to determine the cause of this mental restlessness would probably not tax the genius of a psychologist unduly. It is a preliminary symptom of that dread disease common to most dwellers in this academic atmosphere, namely Cantabrigophobia...
...make the Young Plan work, no clam was closer, no Scotsman more cautious, dour. There was danger then lest reporters trap Mr. McGarrah into what could be construed as an admission that the B. I. S. might become "The World Bank," the omnivorous big brother, the dread competitor of the central banks of the world's nations. One short year ago publicists for the B. I. S. were successfully emplanting in the public mind that it would be "a cash register for German reparations" (TIME, Nov. 25, 1929), not a competitor. All this the work of Tycoon McGarrah...
During the winters of 1897, 1902, 1911 and last week Belgians experienced the dread phenomenon of "poison fog." In their Royal Palace at Brussels last week King Albert and Queen Elisabeth received dreadful tidings that men, women, animals (no children), were gasping, choking, dying in a fog which filled the valley of the River Meuse from Liege down through Namur. On the fourth day the fog lifted, on the fifth Queen Elisabeth motored through the stricken valley, where 67 human lives had been lost, was rousingly cheered. The Belgian Government officially announced that the deaths were due "solely...
...Meanwhile, the wets must do the worrying. We have predicted that the repeal of the state enforcement law would be followed by increased drunkenness. It is up to the wets to see that our prediction does not come true. I sincerely hope that they will succeed, for I dread an orgy of drunkenness, of moonshining and rum-running more than I dread any other plague...
...great coffee city of Sao Paulo, capital of that state, more newspapers were sacked and a "Bastille" fell. In this building, the dread Cambucy prison, the mob found what were said to be "man whips" and "wooden instruments of torture." Soon mobsters ignited the infamous prison (after setting free all prisoners), cheered while it burned...