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...have been composed of many discordant elements. Socialists, Communists, Royalists, and hoodlums, plus a great many citizens out for a lark, rioting without any specific end in view. so far the police have kept the crowd under control--but only with machine guns. If all this is necessary to cow a leaderless mob, what will happen when the rioters are directed by capable leaders who know what they want? If, then, in the next few days the revolt is given some directive force, France will he faced with an organized revolution...
...medal bore his own plump-cheeked, spectacled features in relief. Present, too, were the four asterisks which Dr. Matas inserts at the end of every topic in his medical writings to indicate that the topical "cow has been milked dry." Donor of the Matas Medal is Mike Sam Hart, big-boned, generous New Orleans Jew whose family grew rich in New Orleans public utilities. Mike Hart's late sister, Violet Ida Hart, singer, was long a Matas patient. Her dying wish: "We must do something big for Dr. Matas, something that really will show our appreciation...
...another idea. With Admiral Boyle's ap proval, wireless summoned full speed out from Portsmouth seven destroyers. Resting from their jumping, the Nelson's crew leaned over the taffrail and cheered themselves hoarse while the seven little boats skidded at 35 knots, like terriers around a cow, closer and closer to the great ship in an effort to sweep the mud away with their wash. They made tremendous waves but the only result was to swing the Nelson still more firmly on the bank and completely wreck the pontoon bridge between Portsmouth and Gosport, three-quarters...
...crop restriction from his post as President of the Cuban Na tional Sugar Exporting Corp. (see p. 48). Official reason: "Mr. Chadbourne is a foreigner." Scratch-Surgeon Grau signed an agra rian decree bestowing on every "indigent farmer" in Cuba 33 acres of land, a yoke of oxen, a cow, a plow, some seed and tax exemption for two years. Scratch, scratch, scratch-the President's pen flew over other decrees of a "Cuba for the Cubans" tone. Already approved was an estoppment by the Cuban Treasury of interest on some $60,000,000 lent by U. S. banks...
...that Russian audiences enjoy most in Fear occurs in the second scene of the third act, when Borodin, addressing an audience in a public hall, eloquently summarizes the results of his researches in the emotion which gives the play its name. Says he: "The dairymaid fears confiscation of her cow; the peasant, forcible collectivization; the Soviet worker, perpetual purging of the Party; the political worker, the accusation of lukewarmness; the scientific worker, the accusation of idealism; the technical worker, the accusation of sabotage. "We live in an epoch of great fear. Fear forces the talented intelligentsia to deny their mother...