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...opening of the Conference of American Republics in Mexico City, fairly glittered with the comings & goings of Latin diplomats and their well-dressed ladies, with chatter in bars (mostly in Spanish with a sprinkling of English and Portuguese), with sonorous speeches at green baize tables, with huge Mexican midday dinners at Chapultepec Castle. Meantime the men of the Western Hemisphere got down to the hemisphere's business...
Somehow the night passed without a stampede. Next day the British began moving their prisoners off the island to safe territory. At midday they called for volunteer bakers among the captives, and presently found out how the 70th Division had won its nickname. The bakers at once produced their own white flour, began to turn out excellent white bread. It was one of the privileges granted to the 70th, an outfit made up exclusively of men with ulcers, indigestion and other stomach troubles...
There Van Wyck Brooks awakens early each morning, reads before breakfast, writes from 7:30 till midday, reads again in the afternoon. He uses a quart of black ink a year, has trouble getting the kind he likes. He is as nervous about starting each new book as he was about the first one. He follows no pattern in his writing, never outlines his work, does not know until he is half-finished with a book what form it is going to take. He is now halfway through the reading for the next volume of his history, which will deal...
There's an old song that Beatrice Lillie used to sing to the sweltering British troops in the African campaign. It's an oldie, and it's entitled "Mad Dogs and Englishmen Go Out in the Midday Sun." Well, none of us are Englishmen, orgo we must be mad dogs, because these days you don't even have to go out in the midday sun. It's that hot at midnight and in Disbursing classes. How Lt. Bockham can retain that composure, voice and starched collar is the current mystery...
...Kansas hatchet swinger, who personally broke enough whiskey bottles (full) to arouse envy in the heart of the most rabid prohibition agent, stepped off the electric car that carried her from Boston to Cambridge and went straight to those claustral walls, where a thousand students were eating their midday meal. She had heard that ham was occasionally served with champagne sauce and that she had seen a menu which listed jelly...