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...underground" Communist convention of 1922 (Gitlow, chairman), convened in deep woods near the village of Bridgman, Mich., with night sessions by torchlight to ape Old Bolsheviks under the Tsar. Between sessions the comrades played poker, told dirty stories, went swimming, romanced with female delegates, played practical jokes on the three Russian observers from Moscow (Comintern "Reps"), threw a shoe at one who kept them awake while he wooed Comrade Rose Pastor Stokes. Every bush concealed a caucus...
...their annual 5,000 tons of fish from France's inland waters. In Brittany it is the time for spring pardons-the old, unique, Breton folk custom that permits the peasant to approach the Deity through various saints, and which means a season of blessings, benedictions, reunions, torchlight parades, holidays, betrothals, marriage contracts, singing, wine and forgiveness...
...been the custom heretofore for the college marshals in torchlight processions to go on horseback but as only one of the nine marshals of the upperclasses has ever ridden a horse, this part of the ceremony will be omitted this fall...
...Roskilde, near Copenhagen, the Danish Army planned to black out the town for three nights during antiaircraft maneuvers. Businessmen grumbled. Pacifists took direct action, bought up all the fireworks in town, planned to set them off and march in torchlight parades to "lighten the dark nights...
Other impressions of Every Day's A Holiday: snowy-haired Charles Winninger in typical foxy grandpa mood, Negro Swing-Trumpeter Louis Armstrong leading a torchlight procession, the plushy mustiness of the turn of the century, and a few gags, all mothered and murmured by Miss West. Typical examples: Q. "You mean he made love to you?'' A. "Well, he went through all the emotions. . . ." "Keep a diary and some day it'll keep you. . . ." "She's not as strait-laced as she's laced...