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...constabulary rounded up Moro outlaws who seized on the panic for raids on unprotected villages. But against the real juramentados there was nothing to do except keep trigger fingers limber. No one could say which Moro might suddenly run amuck, or where...
Flynn: "... A mucker who has run amuck ... a demagogue of demagogues . . . the greatest faker on the American political scene ... the most super-colossal hypocrite . . . clown . . . this mountebank Mayor." Farley: "Breast-beating faker." Lehman: ". . . Shameless, scurrilous . . . insulting and vicious...
...last week 19-year-old Knifey Sawicki ran amuck. He turned up in Momence, walked out to Henry Allain's farm. He found the 72-year-old farmer working in a field. Knifey shot him dead, hid the body behind a pump. "He got me sent to St. Charles," said Knifey. "Put the finger on me, the stinking squealer...
...cries of "Warmonger!", "Cassandra!"; sometimes a supercilious "Good old Winnie!" When in 1934 he warned the country that Hitler was arming fast, that England must double its air force at once, Sir Herbert Samuel cried in the House of Commons: "This is rather the language of a Malay running amuck than of a responsible British statesman...
...November to two-thirds of October, neutrals last month lost four times what they lost in September. This, he said, "is indeed a strange kind of warfare for the German Navy to engage in. When driven off the shipping of their declared enemy, they console themselves by running amuck among the shipping of neutral nations. This fact should encourage neutrals to charter their ships to Great Britain for the duration of the war, when they can be sure of making larger profits than they ever made in peace, and have complete guarantee against loss." He said Britain's total...