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...touring the backveld from town to town in ox wagons. Anyone who didn't grow a voortreker (pioneer) beard was an "outlander" or a traitor. A synagogue was dynamited, and George VI's message to the final jamboree was read in Afrikaans. A hangover from this emotional bender was the growth of the Ossewa Brandwag (Ox-Wagon Fireguard), an Afrikaans cultural organization specializing in swastika armbands, military training, bombings of buildings and rail ways, beating up British soldiers. Leading "Peace Parades" last spring, General Hertzog found himself a benign and unwilling front man for local fascist extremists...
...daily releases extolling her virtues, Interior is a dull mistress. Usually they have little more to report than the fact that Fish and Wildlife Service says "the outlook for migratory waterfowl looks, promising." Once in a blue moon, when they get the chance, they go off on a literary bender. Last week the moon was electric blue, and Interior fell off the wagon with a pamphlet called Piscatorial Serenades...
Among other gifts were a representative collection of modern California typography, from Albert J. Bender; and several volumes and manuscripts, from Witter Bynner...
...Miss Lane gets the skull when the volcano erupts, explodes and buries Mr. Ciannelli. Says Tom Fadden, patting the skull as Miss Lane and he drop leisurely downstream a few minutes later: "Old fellow, when we get back from this, you and I are going on a two-week bender...
...First blood!" screamed Republican National Chairman John Hamilton. "Back to normalcy," piped Congressman George Bender, unfortunately reviving a word which many a G. O. Politico had hoped was forever buried with its begetter, Warren Gamaliel Harding of Ohio...