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Died. Vicente Blasco Ibanez, most famed living Spanish author [Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse; Mare Nostrum; Blood and Sand; Alfonso XIII Unmasked (banned in his own country); others] ; of bronchial pneumonia; at his villa in Menton, France, where he lived, a voluntary exile. Of Spain under the dictatorship of Primo de Rivera, he wrote: ". . . it de-teriorates." His monarch he called "slave." In retaliation, a Spanish diplomat, the Marques de Merry del Val, explained: ". . . his loose, inaccurate style has pre-vented him . . from admission...
Then, finally, he denied that Spain had placed a general ban on the books of Blasco Ibaņez and had denied his authorship of Mare Nostrum. With a seeming pat on the back and a left hook to the jaw, the Ambassador concluded...
...only forbidden work is the seditious Alfonso XIII Unmasked?. As for Mare Nostrum, all Spain knows the author. To hide his name is impossible...
...remove hair may cause cancer. The A. M. A. is seeking laws to "forbid the sale of certain dangerous poisons as ingredients of cosmetics and to compel all makers of cosmetics to make truthful representations of their products."?Arthur J. Cramp, sharp-tongued, ruthless quack-killer and nostrum-chaser for the A. M. A., compiler of the Association's reference book, Nostrums & Quackery...
Pater noster, qui es in caelis: sanctificetur nomen tuum. Adveniat regnum tuum. Fiat voluntas tua, sicut in caelo, et in terra. Panem nostrum supersubstantialem da nobis hodie. Et dimitte nobis debita nostra, sicut et nos dimittimus debitoribus nostris. Et ne nos inducas in tentationem. Sed libera nos a malo. Amen...