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Electioneering. With the matter of those to be tried thus disposed of, Premier Poincare turned to electioneering pure and simple. Fervently, though at times sketching the truth, he cried: "France never formulated the idea of revanche*. . . We waited immobile and anxious before the sphinx of Destiny until the day when the Imperial Governments of Austria and Germany, drunk with pride, loosed on their peoples and ours that catastrophe which until the last minute we strove to avoid. . . . On that day of days we were free again, and we swore never to lay down our arms before we had assured...
Although the news has not yet reached the majority of American interior decorators, a change is coming over the fashion in parior keepsakes. The chip from the base of the Sphinx, the vial of water from the Red Sea, the bag of dust from the Catacombs; they are all doomed to go. The thing to supplement the pictures taken at the beach is now the family collection of "priceless and cherished symbols of American sport achievement," as the New York store sponsoring the idea calls them. Baseballs whose motion during a world series has been broadcast to five million listeners...
...bubbles without fuming is gratifying to audiences who are waiting to see Herr Alexander Korda (director) and Frau Marie Corda (actress)* in a forthcoming screen version of The Private Life of Helen of Troy. The heroine of Madame Wants No Children is a newlywed French wife whom the bleak sphinx, Venetian gondolas and an uxorious spouse cannot dislodge from night clubs. Even at home in Paris her life is a succession of jazz blares, pale lights and glittering stuffed shirts. Eventually, however, she joggles down to productive domesticity, mindful that when Baby does arrive, she will have her own night...
...Hall which embarks February 11 upon its second year of answering a great many questions which would cause a Britannica Encyclopedia to go into hysterics. The well-meaning, secluded, unassuming little Desk is called upon to answer questions dealing with everything from a morgue to an employment office. The Sphinx of Egypt would blush with shame at its riddle if it could hear some of the enigmas coming over the wires to University...
Nothing could balk the Information Desk. Like the sphinx--it is very wise...