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...newcomer to startling ideas. In his youth he was an anarchist and a stalwart member of the I.W.W. During the 1930's, Culbertson collaborated with his wife to produce the system of contract bridge which bears his name, thereby providing entertainment for habitues of everything from the prep-school butt-room to the Walla-Walla chapter of the D.A.R...
...night two of them, William Stewart and Matthew Nelson, forgot themselves and went out on the town. At 10 o'clock Stewart dragged Nelson home drunk. The others' faces went grim; they reached for their pistols. They sat Nelson up on a sofa, beat his head with butt and barrel. Stewart, sick at his stomach with fear, slipped to the bathroom, jumped out the window, ran away...
...willing to die for his emperor rushed them with a blazing gun. This made our former copy boy mad. He charged and split the Jap's skull with his rifle butt...
...seven and one-half years, WPA had spent $10½ billions and employed 8,000,000 persons with some 30,000,000 dependents. Long the butt of cartoonists, its more frivolous projects made the word "boondoggle"* an American idiom. But the bulk of its funds were spent in constructing 644,000 miles of roads, 77,000 bridges, 116,000 buildings (schools, city halls, libraries, hospitals, police stations, armories, courthouses, museums), and enlarging and improving 800 airports. WPA also published a series of state guidebooks, decorated many a public building with murals, restored many a historic shrine, sponsored tuberculosis research...
...going to "take a few healthy wallops at my latest favorite punching bag-the-gasoline rationing insane asylum in Southern California." His complaint: Atlantic Coast methods could not be applied to the Pacific Coast without disastrous results. His mistake: making Paul Barksdale D'Orr, California rationing officer, the butt of the controversy...