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...Empirically war has been found to cause trouble. Rationally, it is unacceptable. War destroys both men and society. Finally, Americans have a powerful intuitive repulsion to killing. Using Professor Sorokin's integral method of approach it seems clear that people should make a conscious effort to eliminate war, to extract the thorn in the flesh of civilization. However, from its narrow empirical point of view, America acts on its experience that war may be bad for combatants but is eminently profitable for non-combatants, so it exploits war for what it's worth. Americans have deserted the reality of intuition...
...complicated by Groucho's efforts to extract $10,000 from Mrs. Dukesbury (Margaret Dumont, stately stooge of the Marxes), a Newport dowager. Groucho, who has never seen Mrs. Dukes-bury before, barges into her boudoir, woos her with this Marxian dialectric: "Those June nights on the Riviera . . . and that night I drank champagne from your slipper -two quarts." The big scene is the party for the 400. "Judge Chanock," says Mrs. Dukesbury graciously, "will sit on my left hand, you (to Groucho) will sit on my right hand." "How will you eat," cracks Groucho, "through a tube...
...back up his statement Chase referred to John Stetson Barry's "The History of Massachusetts--The Colonial Period," from which he selected the following extract...
...lobe and centrifuged to remove all red blood cells. Then the clear serum is mixed with several drops of the antigen, a witches' brew of benzoin (a resin from Java or Sumatra), cholesterol (alcohol which occurs in bile), scarlet red (a dye), plain salt water, and alcoholic beefheart extract. If syphilis antibodies are present in the blood, coarse particles develop in the colorless fluid, and clumps of red granules appear around the edges of the mixture. Since the reaction is clearly visible to the naked eye, no microscope is needed...
...have been following the correspondence upon war aims in your columns with considerable attention. In many respects it recalls the war aims controversy of 1917-18 when the Crewe House [propaganda] organization did its unsuccessful best to extract from the foreign office a precise statement of what the country was fighting for (see Sir Campbell Stuart's Secrets of Crewe House). No such statment was ever produced, and the Great War came to a ragged end in mutual accusations of broken promises and double crossing...