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...Thereupon The Moon's No Fool leaves its practical moorings as Ben experiences nightmarish visions where friends are all enemies; where the Queen is successively a prostitute, a torch-singer, a dancing partner, a captive; where his fashionable companions turn into policemen and thugs who are chasing him everywhere; where his beloved changes her being whenever he tries to embrace her. Thereupon, too, The Moon's No Fool takes on its elusive moral tone as Author Matthews suggests the evil consequences and addled wits that follow from self-deception and acceptance of worldly standards. Ben is saved from...
...bombers were lined up as if at attention. Special customs guards had gone to the military field for the sole purpose of inspecting the Lindbergh baggage, of verifying how much money was in the Lindbergh wallet. Due at 5 p. m., the Gipsy-Moth alighted at precisely 5:05. Thereupon the entire German Press began grinding out under huge headlines that "the character of Colonel Lindbergh symbolizes the heroic qualities which Adolf Hitler is seeking to impress on German youth...
...Negroes). When he applied for entrance to Missouri's law school, the University Registrar tactfully suggested that Lincoln could give him a "scholarship" to study law elsewhere. Negro Gaines declined to be sidetracked, got NAACP to bring suit for a writ of mandamus compelling Missouri to admit him. Thereupon the University threw out his application, ruled that, although Lincoln was a State college, its academic credits were not acceptable at the State University...
...high good humor the Moroccan rebels launched their invasion of Spain proper. A troopship loaded with Legionnaires put in at Algeciras near Gibraltar. A rebel torpedo boat shelled the undecided garrison at La Linea, which thereupon joined the revolt. But when La Linea citizens, watching black Moorish troops march into barracks, refused to disperse, the Moors mowed them down with machine guns, blasted them with hand grenades, left La Linea's streets littered with dead. In thousands of commandeered cars, the rebels pushed north, fanning out along the railroads leading toward Madrid...
...meant by "No." To workmen occupying factories illegally, he said, the Government would first send the local mayor to call them out, then a labor union delegate, then the local member of Parliament, and finally, police without bayonets to shoo strikers out "with care." Placated Communist Thorez thereupon threw his weight back to the Popular Front, saying. "The workers must know how to end strikes...