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Centre of the disturbance and scene of the greatest loss of life were the mountain villages of Avellino, Villanova-Albanese, Melfi, in the Apennines back of Naples. Here thousands were mangled, buried alive in the debris of stone houses that crumpled and knocked each other down like rows of toy soldiers. Though Bari on the Adriatic was shaken by severe tremors and many houses damaged, none was killed, none injured. Fascist engineers were proud, for modern Bari is their handiwork. They have converted a small sleepy fishing village into a great modern port (rival of Brindisi), laid out broad avenues...
...herself popular, by the U. S. political trick of baby-kissing and by getting herself adopted into the tribe. She stayed ten months. Her only traveling companion was a fox terrier, her only equipment a revolver, a first-aid kit, 25 Ibs. of staple groceries, gifts of tobacco, tinsel, toy balloons, with which she had small difficulty in winning her way among New Irelanders...
Also opened with the terminal will be the first Harvey restaurant east of Chicago. Harvey, Inc., companion concern to the Fred Harvey restaurants and hotels that flourish mightily throughout the West, will be represented further in the terminal by a candy shop, men's shop, women's shop, toy shop, lunch room, tea rooms, barber shop, book store, mammoth drug store...
...merely a limitation treaty. The Washington Wit scores not so much in this amusing reversal of form as in the revelation that both of these Spectacles for the People were after all, only "mimic Games"; one a peace-puzzle of comic sections and the other a panorama of toy ships for a little boy-god named Mars...
...been played on sidewalk tables in European restaurants, on steamers, in school common rooms, and in nurseries. In the U. S. it has gained new favor in the last year. Its vogue came mysteriously, quickly: boards, once relatively easy to get, came to be in such demand that toy and sporting goods stores could hardly supply them fast enough. Because interruptions do not spoil it and because of its speculative possibilities, club-car members took it up; fellow-members mocked at first, then also learned. Now, as club-cars rattle home in the 'fagend of early summer afternoons...