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...with posters that announced: COLLAPSE OF THE DEMOCRACIES, INCONTESTABLE PROOF OF FRANCO-BRITISH DEFEAT. In front of the Regina Carlton Hotel in the Via Vittorio Veneto they bumped into two British Embassy attaches and two U. S. newspaper correspondents. One of the Englishmen, Secretary George La Bouchere, started to peel one of the posters from a wall. With that the fight was on. Into the lobby of the Regina Carlton burst the milling group. Correspondent Virginia Cowles of the North American Newspaper Alliance ran to telephone British Embassy Counselor Sir Noel Charles, while the Chicago Daily News's John...
...French revolution delayed reform. But when reform came it was not through violent revolution, as elsewhere in Europe, but through the Parliamentary process and the talents of English statesmen. Adams' story includes many instances of the way in which those talents opened up modern civilization; e.g., Sir Robert Peel's inauguration of the police force, Sir Rowland Hill's invention of postage stamps...
...Milk facial baths are not necessary. Rain water and a wild chestnut brew can be substituted. Expert Romer's chestnut recipe: "Peel the chestnuts, dry and grind them, then boil them. Use the broth thus concocted. This is a great cleanser...
Those who will be in the College dormitories are James R. Balsley, Jr. 2G., Stamford, Conn., 40 Quiney Street; Howard F. Bennett, Worcester, Mass., 28 Mt. Auburn Street; Arthur R. Borden, Jr. 1G., Roslindale, Mass., wold Hall; Walter H. Ellis, Jr., Buffalo, N.Y., Wiggnsworth Hall; Fred W. Peel, Jr. 1L., Danville, Ky., 20 Holyeke Street; and James Tobin 1G., Champaign, 111., 59 Plympton Street...
...paint of whose Perisphere, 15 days after the opening, had begun to peel...