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Professor Fay stated that the union of Austria and Germany has "shifted the balance of power in Europe in favor of Germany and of might over right, but the Ansehluss will increase the problem of feeding the 78 million Germans in the enlarge Retch. Austria's foreign trade and tourist traffic will suffer severely because Hitler will clamp down the right German system of currency control and foreign trade regulation...
...harshest blow at the Rt. Hon. Stanley Baldwin thus far, Punch last fortnight cartooned the fact that the Prime Minister is supposed to favor Chancellor of the Exchequer Neville Chamberlain as his successor in a manner calculated to make squeamish Britons retch. With a beaming expression on his round face, Mr. Baldwin is shown thrusting the juicy mouthpiece of his famed old pipe under the beaknose of Mr. Chamberlain whose eyes bulge with revulsion...
...FRIDAY, MAY 31 (V) Anthropology 21 Harvard 5 Biology B Geol. Lect. Rm. Chemistry 13 Mallinckrodt MB8 Economics 10b Harvard 5 Economics 16b Harvard 5 English 10c Sever 1 Fine Arts 9a Fogg Small Rm. Geology 10 Retch Bldg. Geology 24b Geol. Mus. 51B German 2 (see footnote*) Dr. Zipf, Sec. 5 Sever 5 German 26b Harvard 5 Government 29b Memorial Hall Government 34 Harvard 2 Greek A Sever 31 Greek G (see footnote*) Mr. Leighton, Sec. 1 Sever 32 History 2b Memorial Hall Japanese 2 Harvard 5 Latin B (see footnote*) Dr. Little, Sec. 4 Sever 17 Mathematics...
Despite the title, Queen Elizabeth appears but fitfully in the text?surrounded by a muster roll of courtiers with the subsequently decapitated Essex at the head. The reader is inclined to "retch" at the Queen's paint-plastered face, stinking breath and blackened teeth?since he is never made to feel the rich tide of power that swelled in Bess...
...other of their eyes watched in sturdy appreciation the prying crocus crimson through the lawn." Even after allowing for the worst that the printer can have done to the English, one must blame the critic's botany. Mr. Mackaye, we are told, "is too sane and healthy to retch the infinite." Alas! A. W. W. is not. "In the end, however, I should say of this poet: his are the bowels of pity, where is the belly of fire? And this would be my ultimate criticism. His soul needs ignition--if that means more fire." I do not know about...