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...Britain and the U. S. to discover that the cliff-sided, lattice-sailed junks of China could outride a typhoon that would dismast a frigate. A Chinese junk, for all its uncouth lines, is one of the most seaworthy ships ever built. Most of them are also among the dirtiest ships ever sailed. That fact, however, need not worry Subscribing Shipmates. The plans that reached Shanghai last week were for a junk outwardly orthodox in every detail from the staring eyes on its squat prow to the curling dragons on its 30-foot poop, from the lacquered weathervanes...
...Opponents," he gravely warned, "will make this the bitterest and certainly the dirtiest political struggle that any of us here can remember. The assault will be financed with the largest slush fund on record, contributed for the most part by those who have neither public conscience nor private scruple, who are only interested in getting back inordinate privileges." Chairman Farley braced himself for Republican "perversion of the facts," "outright lies." "foul whisperings." "We must work." continued Boss Farley, "for a victory so overwhelming as to make it plain forever that democracy is the faith of our people and that loyalty...
...signal switchboard, nearly wrecked the teletype machine, dined on cheese, jelly sandwiches and milk, went to sleep, awoke and prowled in the basement coal bin, found a sleeping Negro there, kicked him in the face, refused a bath. At the New York Foundling Hospital, nurses agreed he was the dirtiest child they had ever seen, bathed...
...telling involved such a rehash of queer Captain Roehm's unnatural orgies that next day Austrian Heimwehr Commander Prince von Starhemberg retorted: "The Austrian Government cannot remain unmoved when a version of events is broadcast over German radios which is the most unappetizing and dirtiest thing ever broadcast in the German language. Naziism is a version of Bolshevism! I know the present leaders of Germany personally. I know they are incapable of erecting a German system in Germany. Austrians, stand firm! Austria is destined to be the savior of Germanism...
...News, charged the Post and Publisher Bonfils with foully thwarting the Governor's chances of renomination. Mr. Walker's sentences bristled with epithets reminiscent of Denver's newspaper wars: "vulture," "rattlesnake," "vilest man who . . .", "public enemy," "slimy serpent," "contemptible dog of Champa Street," "foulest, dirtiest, vilest piece of newspaper work. . . ." Publisher Bonfils took no action against Chairman Walker. Nor did he-as he would have done a few years ago-loose a withering blast at the News from the gaudy pages of his Post. Instead he marched into court, demanded $200,000 damages for an attempt...