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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Cannon Shots. Famed poet-patriot-playwright Gabriele d'Annunzio mounted to the prow of the desiccated Italian battleship Puglia, which the Fascist Government has had placed upon the lawn of his estate at Lake Garda, Italy. From that vantage point he exulted in the threats which Mussolini had loosed at Rome. Raising his right arm straight before him at an angle of 45 degrees (the Fascist salute), he gave the signal for a salute of 27 guns, which promptly boomed from the cannon of the Puglia... Then he telegraphed "congratulations from the prow of the Puglia" to Mussolini...
Friday. It was raining when I woke up. Heard that Jones W. ("Messy") Mesereau (President of the U. S. Lawn Tennis Association) is fussing because I am writing for French newspapers. He thinks it affects my amateur standing, but I don't think he interprets the player-writer rule correctly. . . Spent the morning writing an article supposed to be an analysis of Suzanne Lenglen's style. What these editors like is a few measured generalities. . . . Rain cleared in the afternoon. Tea at the Casino...
...boulder-strewn backwoods farm. He has reached into "ordinary" people's lives under "commonplace" circumstances and handled them with an intensity that seems deeper-rooted, more inarticulate, more confusing than ever. We are used to seeing rivers dredged but it is appalling to behold excavations in the front lawn...
Baptists do have their shortcomings. The First Baptist Church of East Charlotte, Vermont, gave a concert last summer, an excellent concert, which about ten people, strangers and atheists, attended; the localites--up there one is a Baptist or a heathen--the localites sat outside on the lawn where it was possible to hear the concert for nothing Yes, you can call the Baptists careful at times--but then so's your--President...
...included: Richard M. Tobin, U. S. Minister to the Netherlands, to pay his respects; Governor John W. Martin of Florida to invite the President to visit his state this winter (the gentleman from Florida was shocked to see a bed of pansies in full bloom on the White House lawn); Representative John Philip Hill of Maryland to explain a plan for creating a Department of National Defense (uniting War, Navy and Air-a plan to which the President is opposed) ; Senator Willis of Ohio to discuss plans for getting the Senate to approve U. S. adherence to the World Court...