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...Significance. Foreign nationals noted that, setting aside all question of "retroactiveness," the new laws are designed very nearly to annul the future possibility of an alien's acquiring in Mexico any of the luscious "rights of exploitation" upon which many a non-Mexican purse fattened in the past. Most land-owning corporations will have to be organized with at least 51% of their stock in Mexican banks. Those within 25 miles of the frontier of Mexico must be 100% Mexican. "All natural mixtures of the carbons of hydrogen (i. e., "petroleum," etc.) are vested in the nation," and their transference...
...There where the watermelon and the strawberry transform the midnight dew into luscious red juice; there where the springs gush forth that transparent and God-given fluid sparkling with purity and virtue, the only proper drink for an American citizen; but if there be those of a grosser appetite who want to violate the constitution of America, there is Bimini, only an hour or two away...
...hugest and hottest journalistic potatoes ever baked in Washington, D. C.?the dubiously legal opportunity of publishing the income tax figures of U. S. citizens as paid since Jan. 1, 1924.* Some newspapers had anticipated this opportunity, others had to decide speedily upon their conduct toward the luscious, but alarming, vegetable. Besides the ambiguity of the law, the papers had to consider the reactions of their readers and the dictates of policy. Would curiosity overpower the anger of the individual at seeing the private affairs of himself and his neighbor thus laid bare? Would public opinion swing against...
...music al most devoid of any emotion and a piece of music deeply saturated with sentiment, languor and voluptuousness. The susceptible maiden who, when she hears Ach, du lieber Augustin, feels no emotion beyond one of general cheerfulness and high spirits, is fairly made to palpitate by the luscious strains of the modern waltz ; her soul is carried swooning along undulating oceans of molasses ; she can hardly breathe for the overpowering odors of opopanax and ambergris. . . . "And what has happened to the waltz has happened to all popular music. It was once innocent, now provocative; once pellucid, now richly clotted...
CYRANO DE BERGERAC?Walter Hampden making this luscious romance an evening of indescribable glamor, even when the spotlight is on his nose...