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...England if I'd kill some neighbors she's been having a quarrel with. . . . "I wish all my friends and enemies a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year. That's all they'll get from me this year. I hope I don't spoil anybody's Christmas by not sticking around...
...Roman Catholic youths sat in a cell in Mexico City, last week, solemnly munching a breakfast of eggs fried with red and green peppers, coarse bread, and steaming coffee. As the last morsels disappeared their jailer entered. He had waited until after breakfast, he said, so as not to spoil the young men's appetites. Since they had breakfasted, however, it became his duty to inform all four that they would be led out into the prison garden later that morning, and stood up one by one before a firing squad...
Last week President Ricardo Jimenez of Costa Rica issued a call for songs "fresh and luxuriant from our farms and our rivers, not withered from the cabarets," songs to defend his people "from the tremendous invasion of poor songs that cross the frontier to spoil our pleasure." Two annual national contests will be held, the material gleaned to be compiled into a book on native music...
...answer is. For whatever recriminations pass between diplomats, the feeling of the people of the world seems to be for peace, with disarmament as the first step toward world security. Mean-while the British and Italian foreign offices tell their people through the press that the Russians always spoil every conference anyway, just as soon as it gets nicely going, and so the people must not expect too much of the conference at Geneva. France has also taken steps to keep her people from the conviction that she herself is the militaristic nation and the German and Russian orges...
Sirs: Why spoil your interesting publication with anything so disagreeable as a criticism of the President's having a protector for their son John ? In view of the fact that Mr. & Mrs. Coolidge gave up one of their sons soon after they moved into the White House, one would almost think that it might be wise to protect, if necessary, the one remaining son. . . . HARYOT HOLT DAY New York...