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Peculiar, is it not, that American efficiency and ingenuity must allow such an ugly peril to gain foothold in order that lusty private enterprise might coin more wealth and on the other hand spend thousands of the taxpayers' money to control and fight the dread scourge...
...prison camp) of H. R. H. Duke Albrecht, head of the former Royal House of Wurtemberg, because he refused to vote. Jailors of prison camps proudly reported that the Communists, Socialists, Jews and other anti-Hitlerites in their custody had voted "Ja" in nearly all cases. Thus at the dread prison camp in Brandenburg only 1.2% of the prisoners plucked up courage to vote "Nein...
...Gulf of California (then called the Vermilion Sea), Juan fraternized with the pearl fishers, swallowed many a fish story. Besides mermaids, these fishermen were in great dread of the ojon, a large, flat fish with a single eye in its back, which had to be treated with excessive politeness or it would start a tornado. Said one of them: "I have come home from a Gulf trip so weak with suppressed rage at enforced politeness to an ojon, that I nearly died before I could pick a fight with some land dawdler or beat my wife about a trifle...
...ringing of bells early in the morning now than there is "bolsterous music or playing upon drums," (as the parietal regulations put it), at night. Yet last year it took a tinpan obligate to suppress the Sunday morning cartoonists of Lowell House Tower. Even now, we live in continual dread of the Russian Bells, which might start at any minute, announcing the decreasing sobriety of Lowell House tutors. Perhaps President Conant might decree another act of mercy and cut these bells...
...Over their heads was a network of pipes ready to pour out killing live steam in case of mutiny. With their blankets cowled over their heads, the more confident "grey rats" were already plotting escape. Their chances are better now than when Devil's Island first earned its dread name. In the past year a daring ring of smugglers has earned fat fees by helping 100 prisoners escape from the Isles of Safety and the penal camps on the mainland...