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...Rjskjsky, whose rapier thrusts well mirrored the follies of the Icelandic soul. Then to my attic to nibble on Liederkranz, after which L-, Q-, P-, Shorty, and a St. Bernard named Herman rushed in and fairly dragged me away. (Gad, but am I popular!) Off to a Lithuanian picnic and feasted on pine-smelling borsch and gemutlichkeit gefuilte fish. Sweet Lithuania, haven for the true liberal! Apple-cheeked maidens dancing the traditional sklav-sklav and reminding me of my Love. Later to the attic, whisked my tails from under the mattress, and off to the Somerset to meet Sadie Saltenglotz...
...bundling to keep warm. On the second day the company began turning the heat on & off every few hours. Unperturbed, the sitters produced concertinas, danced, found messengers' roller skates, skated. Games of bridge, poker and pinochle got started. Youngsters got up an amateur hour. "It's a picnic!" they shrilled to friends outside...
...bright winter day in 1748, Benjamin Franklin staged an epochal picnic by the Schuylkill River. On the opposite bank were arrayed Leyden jars. Using the river for a conductor. Franklin electrically fired a pan of brandy. To his guests' amazement, a turkey was then electrocuted, cooked on an electrically turned spit over an electrically-lighted fire. After further experiments Franklin declared that electrocuted fowl "eats uncommonly tender...
...greatest show and heartiest picnic on earth is now Germany's annual get-together of roughly a million Nazis at what is called the "Party Congress" in Nürnberg. Around this city of 416.000 souls last week again sprang up the spreading tent towns in which Nazi boys & girls, youths and maidens, fathers and mothers, bachelors and spinsters, grandfathers and grandmothers sleep on straw couches. This year above their& canvas rose a dramatic "Tent of Light"-150 searchlights placed in a circle in such a way that their four-million-watt shafts of light met above...
Bishop Hill, Ill. (pop. 208), site of one of earliest Swedish religious communes in the Midwest, was all astir last week. Carpenters were busily plugging a hole carelessly burned in the Old Colony Church roof last April while townsfolk prepared to feed several thousand visitors next week at a picnic to celebrate the 90th Anniversary of the purchase from the U. S. Government of the Bishop Hill colony's land. Simultaneously, the attention of U. S. art critics was being called to Bishop Hill because it had just been discovered that the Old Colony Church housed the nation...