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...which are quite popular in Japan. De Maupassant has been banned before, even in France, for immorality, but some observers thought that the Tokyo censorship was directed not at his descriptions of lovemaking, but at his bitter essay on war in a little-known travel book, Sur l'Eau...
After spraying the notes with F. W. Woolworth's elegant "Eau de Harvard Square," the committee distributed them throughout the Yard last night. Having set the Jubilee date at May 23, the committee will reopen their publicity campaign after vacation with the announcement of the band for the affair. At the moment several prominent orchestras are being considered but no decision has been reached...
...very nervous and very worried--somehow or other he knew that he'd never look well amid the mysterious implements of a boudoir table. Eau de Cologne bothered him, and eyebrow pencil embarrassed him with its frank fraudulence. And yet there he was destined to lie-surrounded by the rouge pots and the powder puffs. It was a sad fate, but it was inevitable, and Vag believed with Confucius that the inevitable must be accepted...
...Eau Claire, Wis., Oil-burner Salesman W. B. West, arrested for speeding, could not pay the $20 bail bond. He got the money by persuading the desk sergeant to make a $20 down payment on an oil-burner...
...lumps of sugar soaked in absinthe which his mother tossed him when he was ten to shut him up. By the age of 15 he was drawing steady inspiration from gin and whiskey bottles. By the '305 he had moved on to lamp fuel, mentholated alcohol, petroleum, benzine, eau de cologne, ether, with opium and hashish on the side. In 1936 London's great Tate Gallery publicly and prematurely proclaimed him dead of drink. Utriilo was not dead and he was no longer drunk; he was still prodding his imagination (by praying instead of drinking) and painting pictures...