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...metropolis' vast customs revenues from reaching Generalissimo Chiang. Chinese cable censorship at Shanghai was abolished, the Japanese not imposing this week censorship of their own. Expulsion of Chinese officials from Shanghai Govern-ment buildings was decreed. Chinese and foreigners alike were sternly warned by Japanese authorities to eschew anti-Jap-anese and pro-Communist activities of every sort...
...Eschew mysterious blonde ladies, particularly when traveling in foreign countries. Most of them have mysterious husbands who burst into bedrooms inopportunely, badger innocent Communists into selling State secrets...
Since membership in the League requires that the member state have a strong central government and eschew slavery, Il Duce's drift was that the League can save its face by dropping Ethiopia as unworthy of membership and commissioning Italy, who has no slaves and does possess a strong central government, to bring the backward Empire up to date. Only thing wrong with this Fascist argument on its face was that in 1923, when inexperienced Benito Mussolini had been Premier of Italy for only a few months, the Italian Delegation stood sponsor to Ethiopia and enabled that Empire...
...college in Salt Lake City (University of Utah), later taking his Ph. D. at the University of Chicago. During his first year in high school Fisher wrote a novel, had sense enough to burn it. At Chicago one of his instructors, Professor-Novelist Robert Herrick, advised him to eschew literary ambitions, told him he would never "write a novel worth opening." Fisher made better sense when, after boiling the pot by teaching English for several years at Utah and New York Universities, he went back to Idaho to write. His first novel, Totters of the Hills, got a good press...
...success of the house plain that they will sacrifice their new privilege, but the record of the tutors' tables, of their healthy life and stubborn, imposed death, indicates that such tutors are in the minority. The graduate students, whose interest is less direct, cannot be expected to eschew beer at meals in the tutorial cause; the bulk of undergraduates over twenty-one will tend to follow their example. In this manner beer will divide the houses, and in so dividing them it will assume a vast and obvious importance to which its own merit would never entitle...