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...report of this blurt soon reached General Eisenhower. After careful investigation, the Supreme Commander "busted" General Miller to his permanent rank of lieutenant colonel, *gave him 24 hours to get out of the country and on his way to the "zone of the interior...
Oregon's Rufus C. Holman proceeded to make the blurt-of-the-week: "It seems to me that the difficulty centers around the fact that the Commander in Chief of the Army is himself a candidate for the Presidency. If he would eliminate himself from that advantageous or unfair position, I think debate on the pending bill would cease...
...says Bell, think of the churches "as social clubs . . . smothered by respectability and enervated by timidity ... led chiefly by parsons more intent to please the congregations than to blurt out the disconcerting will of God . . . controlled ... by small-bore laymen fearful lest the Church blow ardently upon the latent fires of spiritual and moral revolution . . . impotent to prevent the war . . . [unable] to stand for prevention of a revengeful and dishonest peace...
...Says he: "I had just that instant discovered the morphological secret of Freud! Freud's cranium is a snail!" Dali eventually met Freud. But only when Dali's voice "became involuntarily sharper and more insistent . . . before [Freud's] imperturbable indifference," did the psychological giant finally blurt out: "I have never seen a more complete example of a Spaniard. What a fanatic...
When Hays led his civil-liberties parades against Mayor Frank Hague of Jersey City (1938), he met his match. Hays wanted Hague's police to jail him (to create an issue). Instead, a disobliging cop simply hustled him along the street. Hays "managed to blurt out: 'All right, as long as you push, I'll go.' " But there wasn't much fun in that. Hays came back a few days later to orate against Hague from the top of an automobile. It was no use. Mayor Hague was too smart to play...