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...Affaires and a guard of honor and was conducted to the French Embassy to the strains of a military band playing the Toreador's March from Carmen. M. Herbette was amazed, expected the band to play the Marseillaise, but was told that foreign national anthems are forbidden in Russia. Bolshevik reporters called a few minutes later at the Embassy; to them the Ambassador said...
...mentioned the fact that Harvard University sponsored the first eclipse expedition ever sent out from an American institution, which left Boston in 1780. After special arrangements with the British forces who then held the Maine coast, the astronomical party was allowed to land at Penobscot Bay, though it was forbidden to communicate with the inhabitants. The observations were successful and instructive, being of great value to mariners as well as astronomers, for at that time the moon's position was not so accurately known...
Although the opposition press appears, if at all, with innocuous comments, although parades and meetings of Communists are resolutely forbidden, although Mussolini uses all his faculties in geeing and hawing a turbulent assembly along the path of Fascism, it is evident that the mailed fist has strained its sinews. His hold on the Italian imagination is gone. It may be weeks or months before Mussolini disappears, but the romantic light of the dawn of Fascism has already vanished under the cruel glare of a full day of oppression, and it seems that the Italian people but awaits the time...
Bright and early one morning la grippe took a firm hold on him, kept him in bed for several days. The malady was accompanied by a swelling of his right leg, which he was forbidden to move; but his general condition improved rapidly, mainly owing to his Herculean constitution...
...touches and uncovers, not an expanse of epidermis and small hairs and sweat glands, but the body of a goddess . . . and the aged clasp not a prayer-book but the key to eternal bliss." "Reflection finds the circumstance unfortunate that most of the agreeable actions of life are either forbidden or else deplorably behedged with restrictions...