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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Romana rested on the Roman Legions. Pax Britannica rests on the Empire defense forces-particularly the Navy-and they ought to be much stronger than they are! . . . I hope one of the results-perhaps a good result-that will emerge from the difficulties and disappointments we have suffered in recent months will be that we will take note of the weaknesses that have appeared in the League of Nations and shall do our best to remedy them...
...Average pay of waterworks superintendents in the U. S. and Canada is $4.11 per day. Deploring this fact, retiring President Frank Barbour of Boston trumpeted: "The slightest slip on the part of any one of these superintendents might result in a typhoid epidemic that would wipe out practically an entire community...
...imagination shown in her original pieces. Best was a Nigerian Dance which she wrote when a Nigerian friend sent her a mahogany elephant. Others were: Rolling Home on My Roller Skates, Pansy Bells, The Butterfly, The Wolf (inspired by Little Red Ridinghood&), Golden Fish in Silver Waters, the result of a visit to the Aquarium...
...English, particularly by Lady Hamilton, wife of the English Ambassador, Nelson's mistress, a huge, handsome, hearty woman who had been picked up in a London brothel only a few years before. It was commonly believed that Lady Hamilton's influence over the Queen was the result of a perverse relationship. The court was one of the most corrupt in Europe. Yet revolutionists like Fernando did little more than repeat scandals about the nobles, fearing the wild, starving, superstitious Neapolitan mobs almost as much as did the aristocrats and the Queen...
...figures slink through the fog, the fascists camp on the farm to protect it from the police. During this imbroglio, Mary's high-minded lover is pushed off a wagon by a policeman. This dislodges two pieces of shrapnel left in his brain since the War, with the result that he goes blind. Mary thereupon regrets her previous highmindedness, offers herself to her lover, but his regard for her husband has deepened with his loss of sight, and it is his turn to do the rejecting. Mary, who expected nothing in the first place, does not seem particularly disappointed...