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...Itching Parrot-"Poll" for short-is the nickname of one Pedro Sarmiento, a well-born Mexican ne'er-do-well who plays out the classic routines of all picaresque heroes, with a strong dash of erotic chile con carne seasoned with moral saws and liberalistic satire. The Parrot disregards a wise father, is spoiled by a booby mother, wastes her fortune, sinks to the lowest flophouses and gambling dens of Mexico City, where "there are but two rules: luck and cheating. The former is more lawful, but the latter is surer." In jail the prisoners rob him and empty...
...both novels) is as old as the Book of Ruth. The story of Frenchman's Creek seems an even more universal legend. If one forgets Flaubert's Madame Bovary, Miss du Maurier can vindicate her unoriginality by quoting Pope: What oft was thought but ne'er so well express...
British Ambassador Sir Samuel Hoare, interviewing Spanish Foreign Minister Ramón Serano Suñer twice in two days, tried to counterpoise his own influence to that of the German Ambassador. But probably the military strategy of the Axis (see p.12), and not diplomatic conversations, would determine the duration of peace in Spain...
...officers elected will be President, Vice-President, Secretary-Treasur- er, and two members-at-large, all of whom will constitute the executive council, and may appoint two additional members-at-large. Five delegates will be chosen for the convention, which is being held at Harvard from December 27 to 30, and which will merge the various liberal interventionist student groups into a united national organization...