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...Derby: "The inspector did not, as one of my honorable friends has suggested, 'publicly rebuke a little child's pure and holy love of its country,' but suggested in a private conversation with the teacher that the child's essay perhaps indicated a patriotism more fervent than considered. The inspector demonstrated his own practical patriotism during the World War by serving four years in the British Army...
Meanwhile the Japanese Cabinet, just before the Vanity Fair incident burst, tried last week to settle the recent months of quarrel about Emperor Hirohito's exact status by a solemn and fervent pronouncement. Excerpt...
Charles Wurts, Philadelphia broker, wrote Texas' Senator Tom Connally: "It is my fervent hope that your favorable vote for the Public Utilities Holding Company Bill will result in your losing your seat in the Senate." Replied Senator Connally: "I have your intimidating letter. ... I am wholly indifferent to your coarse impertinence and presumption...
...snorting Mercédès and the Jew hunt was on, a peculiar feature being that the sidewalk crowds joined in a hunting chant taught them by the hunters. This was roared out one line at a time by the group leaders, all present then repeating in a fervent chant: Perish Jew! Get the Hell out! Blood-running noses! The best Jew is a dead Jew! Perish Jew! Suiting action to words, the Jew hunters plunged into night clubs, theatres, and cafés, dragged out every customer who looked like a Jew, beat him bloody on tho sidewalk...
Japanese troops are often primed for battle by stirring their souls with the fervent poem which concludes ". . . immeasurable as the depths of the sea is the debt we owe our Emperor. The time has come to pay our debts...