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Causus Belli. When Reijiro Wakatsuki was Minister of Home Affairs (1924-26) he allegedly promised a group of Osaka real estate speculators that if they would contribute 200,000 yen ($100,000) to the funds of his party (Kenseikai) he would issue an order transferring the filles de joie of Osaka to a new quarter of the city owned by the speculators. The money was paid, but the order was not issued. Recently the aged onetime (1914-16) Minister of Communications K. Minoura was thrown into jail on charges arising from the incident. Premier Wakatsuki, called to testify, whitewashed himself...
...Nordicism lie germs of greatness which never take on alien soil. But there is sufficient reason why at this time true pride should be expressed that in an age so mechanical as to be morose, so intricate as to lose its intrigue one human has enough of the joie de vivre to wish to risk...
...that to play the fool in the right place is delightful, one cannot admit that the steps of Widener Library are the place. That the recent demonstration of the truth that Aristotle was a trifle sanguine in naming man a thinking being was significant of nothing but a moronic joie de vivre, nevermore to darken the doors of Widener is obvious. The moving pictures have enough material on hand for absurd caricature of Harvard life without aid from the class...
...mile trophy is presented by Ex-Mayor Curley of Boston, and has been won in the past four years by such stars as Joie Ray, Patrick Mahoney, Lloyd Hahn, and Leo Larrive. Larrivee is expected to run this year. In the dash events Hubert Houben, the German sprinter, and Frank Hussey, national 100-yard champion, are entered. All other events except the two relay races are to be handicap affairs...
...great crowd rose shouting for Nurmi, the incomparable, the undefeatable, who once ran the mile in 4:10 2/5, who has innumerable times defeated Willie Ritola, Joie Ray (TIME, July 28, Jan. 19 et seq.)-a Nurmi like the After, of the patent-medicine advertisements. While he ran, they sat voiceless, staring at a Nurmi whose legs churned up and down, whose shoulders rolled, whose chest heaved-one who unmistakably resembled that unhappy journeyman of the piles, hookworm, gallstones, liver complaint, kidney trouble, Bright's disease, lost manhood-poor Before. They saw him, with a desperate display of iron...