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...bread; luncheon would be weeds from the garden, cooked in a few drops of oil, if one were lucky enough to get oil, and another thin piece of dry bread; and finally, dinner would be vegetable soup, thickened with a teaspoonful of wheat flour, and for dessert a fig or a couple of olives. Dogs, cats, even rats are the only meats to be found; three pounds of donkey meat, which tastes like kitchen soap, costs about...
...martial Mediterranean last week, strangely pacific ships were afloat. From fig-famed Smyrna on the Turkish coast, the British Llandovery Castle, brightly lighted, sailed for Egypt. In the same harbor the Italian Grandisca got up steam to sail for Italy. Into Gibraltar, unscathed, sailed the Italian Saturnia and Vulcania, sparkling with fresh white paint...
Virpetentes mercenariae. The pseudo-glamour-girls. Unlike their classmates, these attend classes wearing earnings, high heels, but not sweaters. Some of them are popular. (Fig...
Virpetentes sirenicae. These are cute, try to give the boys the eye, and and answer telephones in hopes of snaring boys who ask for girls who are not in. (Fig...
...their men better and longer than either of the two preceding types. They go about with one sock up and one sock down, hair uncombed, but pretend to be devoutly interested in whatever interests the boy-friend, such as pinball, economic statistics, or how he told off the dean. (Fig...