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...began last autumn at a Hallowe'en party in Pompey Hollow's snug little one-room schoolhouse, after the party rowdies stole a halyard from the school flagpole. Trustee Armstrong hung the flag in an alcove near a small oil stove where the pupils warmed their lunches. Worried lest the big flag catch fire, Miss De Lee took it down, pinned up a small one. Mr. Armstrong, infuriated, tore down the small flag, ordered the big one up again. Next day there was no flag at all and the small one was in the coal bin. "Hang...
...week der Reichsführer stayed snug in his Bavarian mountain retreat. Such is popular ignorance under the Nazi system of "guided news," that in Berlin crowds gathered every day outside the Realmleader's office in Wilhelmstrasse, shouting plaintively from time to time, "Leader, dear Leader, come out to us!" Stolid police saw no reason why they should explain that the Dear Leader was some 400 miles away. Exultant Berlin papers hailed him as the greatest vote-getter of all time, far greater than Franklin Delano Roosevelt. Now the world could no longer scoff, Germans exulted, at German election...
This news break mildly annoyed the King. Snug in a rambling rented country house in Surrey, he has been bickering by cable for weeks with Siamese Premier Bahol, the rough & ready General who won the Second Revolution which has not dethroned Prajadhipok. If only someone at Singapore, probably a cable relay clerk, had not blabbed, His Majesty might have continued for months or years in languid Siamese fashion to treat with his obstreperous Premier...
...Dionne quintuplets last week moved into their winter quarters, a snug little private hospital which Ontario businessmen built for them 100 yd. from the bustling farmhouse where they were born four months ago (TIME, June 11 et seq.). Though it was raining pitchforks Dr. Allan Roy Dafoe would brook no delay. Fortnight ago all five had attacks of intestinal toxemia. Last week all had slight colds, caught apparently from their five older brothers and sisters. There was whooping cough, too, in the neighborhood. And their sturdy mother, who has had nothing to do with their nursing or care, seemed again...
...Snug behind closed windows in his study at Mount Hermon School for Boys one chill Massachusetts evening last week sat the Rev. Elliott Speer, 35, headmaster. Like hundreds of other schoolmasters, he was just back from vacation to prepare for another term. A few boys and proctors were back too, but most of them would not arrive until school opened the following week. The 2,500-acre campus, in the hills near Northfield, lay summer quiet. As was his nightly habit, Headmaster Speer sat with notebook in hand planning his next day's schedule...