Today -100: June 1, 1923: Of obelisks, evil curbs, hay, and how many midgets can you fit in a taxi?

NY Gov. Alfred E. Smith holds hearings on whether to sign the bill repealing NY enforcement of prohibition, staying silent throughout the proceedings.

The British response to Russia’s response to Britain’s ultimatum includes a demand that Russia’s, representatives in Afghanistan and Persia, which Britain seems to have forgotten are not British colonies, be removed for doing propaganda.

The Boyne Obelisk, erected in 1736 in Drogheda, Ireland to celebrate William of Orange’s victory over the forces of Catholicism, is blown up. By the Irish government, although the NYT neglects to include that detail.

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Aldous Huxley’s Antic Hay is published sometime this month. I read about a quarter of it before giving up, partly – but only partly – because he used a lot of fancy words that I didn’t know and which my Kindle’s dictionary didn’t know either.

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