Word: brained
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...warns me. My blood speaks! I must listen to my blood." Thus Signor Mussolini is wont to explain the promptings of his extraordinary political intuition- promptings which he has ever translated into action with disconcerting speed. Last week these sanguinary omens may be presumed to have fired his brain afresh. While most Italians slept he harangued a meeting of all but one of his ministers. By morning a sheaf of Cabinet decrees were issued which bade fair to alter the whole course of daily life in Italy. Decrees. I. Italian employers are empowered at once and until further notice...
...specially evolved division of the human family. They were told that they represented "legislative man." Two New York Democrats-Senator Copeland and Representative Kindred-introduced resolutions in their respective chambers proposing the appointment of a Dr. Arthur MacDonald to measure all congressional skulls annually, estimate the average brain weight within and make illuminating deductions in a report to the Vice President- without mentioning any names-as to the "inner activities of Congress." Dr. Copeland has long fattened his income by writing on popular medical subjects for the newspapers and so was an ideal sponsor for the ingenious new plan...
Naturally this activity pivoted upon the Masaryk-Benes-initiated Czechoslovak revolutionary movement which they directed from Switzerland during the War. It is customary to regard Masaryk as the soul, Benes as the brain of their great achievement...
Three cheers for Lampy! Many complaints have been heard from all quarters concerning the decadence of Lampy and his interiority in comparison with other college papers of the same type. But the fertile brain of the editors has at last, brought to light a new source of humor from which no doubt they will be able to draw a wealth of new and original jokes, and will thus relieve the present monotony of reading jokes which range anywhere from the pre-historic to "The Best Joke I Ever Heard" in the last Boston American. The idealism and breadth of vision...
...artists remind one of Baalam and his ass. For once more may we say. "And the Lord opened the month of the ass." But no, we cannot lay as the door of the Almighty such a gross, barbarons, wanton picture capable of origin only in the brain of a moron. For if Lampy can find no other material but scorn of the Jewish students in the college and the aspirations and religious ideals of the Jewish race, then it is quite easy to understand the general attitude towards the publication. B. Wantman...