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Poor-Rumped Relatives. Every Harris relative proved a flack's bonanza. There was Roy's father, "Big Henry'' Harris, a 237-lb., 47-year-old bear who has been called "the best fist, knee, knife and heel fighter in the territory." Big Henry raised his two sons, Roy and Tobe, as fighters, roamed saloons for daring comers, now tells Roy to whip Patterson "or I'll whup...
Page after page Monocle employs the lead sock and mailed fist on modern civilization, its low-life and its literature. Gone is the gentle velvet touch or the cultivated wit; in its place--attended by the three old shrews of overstatement, needless elaboration, and editorial foot-note--is the effective finesse of the piledriver. Monocle Credits cleverly mention precisely what the author's parodying, to allay the confusion...
...Sometimes I just can't understand Congress," barked Dwight Eisenhower, smashing his fist against the table and glaring at the Republican congressional leaders who had come to the White House for their weekly conference. "I can't understand the House adding a couple of hundred millions I didn't want for defense spending, appropriating millions of lard for rivers and harbors-and then cutting the devil out of foreign...
...McClellan committee investigations, unscathed by three recent court trials and small-bore insurgency in his organization, unabashed by proven connections with gangsters both in and out of his heavily muscled union, Teamster Boss James Riddle Hoffa bounced confidently into Washington last week and, with one single stroke of his fist, made the whole U.S. labor movement sit up and take notice...
...weeks or months of their seizure, as hundreds of lesser known Hungarian rebels were. But the Russians waited for 18 months and then brutally proclaimed their deed, giving the executions the deliberate quality of a slap in the face to the non-Communist world and of a mighty fist thrust in the faces of the satellites...