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Upon the prostrate portrait of His Holiness, the Fascist youths stamped, tramped. Italian police, present by this time in large numbers, made no arrests but gradually, persuasively dispersed the tramplers. Next day it was known that Il Duce had frowned an awful frown upon such hot deeds. But high words continued in the press...
Capitalism+Communism=Peace? It was not that everyone suddenly realized at Geneva last week that Litvinov is a Briand. The reason why Briand himself and other League statesmen suddenly began to frown upon the bearman was a trifle sordid. In recent months the Soviet Government has been swinging more and more buying orders from the U. S. to Europe. Pleased Europe wants more. French manufacturers were fervently with M. Briand when he lauded last week "the great moderation of M. Litvinov...
...Vagabond can not frown upon this, but he can not wholly and openly condone it. The receptions are always bad. Everyone tells lies about the groom and trys furtively to take two pieces of wedding cake. And if one begins to kiss the bridesmaids, along about the third one he runs into an absolute dud whose smile would make a horse shy. This dud accounts for the endless conversations that one sees going on. The poor fool is trying to decide just what to do. And if one doesn't kiss the bridesmaids...
...time I have devoted to TIME as a subscriber, reader for many years encourages me to believe that its editors are not victims of that most common and unfair prejudice which would cause them to frown upon the item of novel interest I am submitting...
Naval College authorities frown on visiting reporters, but U. S. correspondents last week succeeded in seeing and talking with Alfonso's two strapping daughters, the Infantas Beatriz and Maria Christina who were taking lessons in stenography before becoming paid secretaries to their father and mother...