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...have another case of our over-intellectualized civilization running amuck. A thirteen-year-old school boy is dead and two families are heart-broken over one of the most appalling incidents known to the criminal history of the New World...
Liberal and Conservative Parties ran amuck last week on the question of tariff preferences. The Liberals would have none of it, the Conservatives, who had just won a by-election in West Derbyshire, were all for it. Messrs. Asquith and Lloyd George decided that the Liberal Party had better remain free. Later Premier Baldwin ordered a committee which was preparing a protection plan to discontinue its work...
...What!" will be exclaimed, "this is not the joke of columnists? Why, you have double-crossed us--the sun has indeed run amuck! Let us have a new election." But what will happen after that, no one, not even the man who sees good in everything, would dare conjecture...
Today the show at Cambridge closes with the Bear-baiting for which the audience is always expectant. Advance press agents have written of famous cases in the past where the Bear has run amuck and clawed the boys in the front row. They have also promised that today's Bear is unusually ferocious and his claws unusually sharp. Still the audience is curious and, suppressing all fears, is anxious to see the show out. And there will be plenty of applause to welcome the Bear...
Chapin Runs Amuck...