Word: assaulters
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Significance. A vivid, swift-footed description of youth's perennial first assault upon life?written with beauty, humor and fire. A younger generation that is not Fitzgerald's treated from a new angle and without professional flapperisms. Faults of course?occasional over-writing?occasional lapses into adolescent unreality?but on the whole a first novel that does not need the usual "displays great promise" critical lifeline?a first novel that should interest a wide and diverse public...
...Significance. Mr. Ford's attack on Secretary Weeks can hardly have been delivered for purely business reasons. The emphasis that the statement places on the supposed injury to the farmers has the force of an appeal for the farmer vote in 1924. Mr. Ford made the first frontal assault on the Coolidge Administration, and Mr. Weeks bore the brunt of the attack...
...Every Communist found was compelled either to sip or gulp a pint of castor oil. It was amusing to see Fascisti, wearing black shirts and looking very earnest, bottles sticking out of their hip pockets, chasing wildly down the street after a shrieking Communist. Then the capture, the terrible assault, hurling the luckless Red to the sidewalk, injecting the bottle into his mouth to the muffled accompaniment of blasphemy of all the gods and devils in the universe...
...prank of fate, however, is that the Republicans have planned to make a similar assault on one of their opponents, Earle B. Mayfield, elected Senator from Texas last Fall. About a dozen Democrats, it is believed, will vote with Republicans to unseat Mayfield, accused of the same crime as Mr. Newberry. The expression which will reside on Senator Spencer's face is a matter of conjecture...
...victim of the assault (in serious condition) declared: "If they do get him away from the police, I hope they give me the first lick...