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...Riding into a crowd of massed students as they stood peacefully awaiting an opportunity to protest the welcoming of the German cruiser "Karlsruhe" Boston's highly touted police force was on hand to dispel the crowd before any kind of demonstration could be staged. The necessity of maintaining law and order is acknowledged, but the manner in which it was done yesterday, even before the necessity for so doing arose, may be subject to the harshest criticism...
...fact that this extreme move was made necessary should dispel all illusions as to Italian autarchy. The Grain War, the reclamation of swamps, and the introduction of widespread electrification may have been worthy of the New Rome, but they have not eliminated Italy's dependence on foreign markets in which to sell her products and receive supplies. Typical of many of Mussolini's brain-children, autarchy has made a better showing on paper and on the rostrum than in the drear light of economic reality. CASTOR...
...ideal which went to reinforce the more obvious opposition to its practice. Fascism labours under no such handicap. Its critics are never sure that they are attacking the concept rather than a mere imperfect application of it; and its high priests will appoint neither prophet nor creed to dispel a confusion that is so convenient...
...Vagabond was sitting quietly last evening staring into the crackling hickory fire which drove the fall chill from his chimney corner, and thinking how the barbarian shriek of fire-engines would soon dispel the peace of his chambers under Memorial's clock. Suddenly there came a knocking from the depths, rap, rap, rap, thrice it came, and the distant corner of the room, illuminated only by the firelight, glowed with a greenish phosphorescence. Startled, the Vagabond discerned a figure standing there, limned in the faint, emerald light. Its coat was of gabardine, its trousers of flannel, from its eyes came...
Lying now in the darkness, alone with his frozen body, Bellower Humphries thought of crying out for help, discovered that his famed lungs and larynx still functioned. He bellowed. No one came. He kept on bellowing at intervals as grey light came to dispel the suffocating darkness, as the sun climbed & climbed into the sky. It was not until 10 a. m. that a neighbor who lived across the street finally heard the bellows, rushed over to find Joe Humphries sweating and shivering...