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...accomplished fact, the Fascist régime, which has so altered the Constitution of the Italian state that any preconceived opposition to Fascismo is politically useless and historically absurd. Duo. That the nefarious and scandalous campaign of the Aventines has miserably failed, because it rested upon no foundation. Tre. That the Aventine pledges itself to cease to act in concert with Anti-Fascists abroad...
...Bordeaux cult, the noted order of Nôtre Dame des Pleurs (Our Lady of Tears), has flourished for 21 years, since its foundation by one Mme. Marie Mesmin, "Sainted Mother Marie" (onetime concierge), and a Syrian priest, "The Archimandrite Sibourgi," who in 1920, quarreled with Mme. Mesmin, "laid a curse upon her," and returned to Syria...
...exorcised her in the oratory of Nôtre Dame des Pleurs, and wish to add that she was completely dressed at the time, as stories told and written about me afterward were that I had obliged her to undress before exorcising...
...raison d'étre of the book is the author, for R. F. Foster is a unique character. Almost what Hoyle* was to the 18th century, Mr. Foster is to the 20th (particularly within the radius of Manhattan newspapers). He was 40 years old when he became "card editor of the New York Sun. Soon famed as authority on auction bridge, his production of literature on cards within the last 20 years has been enormous. The "rule of eleven owes its origin to him. Men by the thousand and women by the ten thousand have applied themselves to study...
...German Army in the early eighties?;-of what Roosevelt once said of him*?of the fact that his son, Roger Wolff Kahn, has organized a very successful jazz orchestra?of the respectful way in which the press is beginning to call him "America's Foremost Patron of tre Arts." Or he might have thought, not without satisfaction, of the banking career whose compact pattern knits these scattered salients. Formerly cashier in a bank in Carlsruhe, Germany, later Vice President of a German bank in London, he came to the U.S. during the panic of 1893, took...