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...eight major-league ball parks, the players trooped out of their dugouts. Politicians trotted on to the field and shook hands all around. Someone placed a floral horseshoe on home plate. Red-coated brass-bandsmen, tootling gaily, marched off toward the flagpole leading a procession of flag-bearing U.S. Marines, high-hatted bigwigs and sheepish ballplayers, shuffling out of step. The flag was raised, the Star-Spangled Banner reached high F, the mayor threw out the first ball. Thus traditionally the baseball season opened last week. Immediately dopesters' expectations were knocked out of the ball park...
...band playing Happy Birthday To You. Two hours later, at 6 a.m., the forts of San José and Matamoros sounded off with a 21-gun salute. Early the people arose, dressed themselves in their best, and hurried to the patios and salas of the Palace, where they saw floral compositions representing harps, marimbas, Guatemala's shield, books, a motorcycle, a locomotive, a train. At the end of a long, polished-mahogany chamber they were greeted by a trim, steely-eyed man. Officials addressed him as Chief, humble folk as Father. He was Jorge Ubico, celebrating his 62nd year...
...Romig doesn't care for God Bless America he will not be compelled to sing it. ... Almost every veterans' outfit and Minute Men organization in the land open their meetings with it. ... Portland (Ore.) used it for the floral theme of its annual Rose Festival. ... It is played at all Brooklyn Dodgers home games, at the midget auto races at Castle Hill Stadium in The Bronx, at bingo games, and it was a standout feature of the President's birthday balls.... At Sheboygan, Wis., a local ordinance makes it a must at all band concerts along with...
...that Master-Farmer David Lloyd George was right: they must plow their pasturage and "dig for victory." Seeking also to cut home consumption not only of food but of nonessential articles, the Board of Trade restricted by two-thirds the supply of 600 such items as brassieres, suspenders, pajamas, floral waters and pomades; hoped thereby to release factories and labor (see p. jj) for war production. At the same time, London's posh Savoy Grill served its last supper, shut up shop "for economic reasons." Only bright news to a nation sternly taking in its belt: this year...
Wallace E. Davies 4G, of Floral Park, New York; A.M. Harvard; History...