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Response was instantaneous. By evening Jews and Masons sat trembling behind their locked doors and bolted windows while fist-shaking mobs surged in the streets and more & more provocative posters appeared...
...beat up Fascist sympathizers, the Dictator quietly moved up several Italian battalions which arrived in the night, doffed uniforms, put on civilian clothes and next day gave the German hooligans the beating of their lives while Italian police pretended to marvel at the frequency of brawls and fist fights. As the Nazis fled to Nazidom, the regiment resumed uniforms, the Tirol resumed its calm and in Rome spokesmen for II Duce scoffed politely at "those fantastic rumors from the Alto Adige" (Italy's name for Southern Tirol...
...some of that pie." The "Kingfish" also raked from the past an incident which the Senator from Arkansas would much rather have forgotten: his assault on a golfer at the Chevy Chase (Md.) Club in 1924. "The Senator suggested that General Johnson and I have a fist fight," drawled the "Kingfish." "That is bad advice from the Senator...
Washington, Mar. 5--Senate majority leader Joseph T. Robinson today likened Senator Huey P. Long to a madman and invited him to behave in the Senate like a gentleman or go outside and settle in a fist fight his dispute with General Hugh S. Johnson...
Wagner, the dramatist, was working at his desk when his death stroke came. Beethoven, the Titan, died shaking his fist at a thunderstorm. Brahms' end was more prosaic and not until lately was it described by his housekeeper, the only one who witnessed it (TIME, Nov. 6, 1933). He had cancer of the liver and he caught a fatal cold standing in the rain at Clara Schumann's grave. On his death bed he spoke little, because his false teeth kept slipping. His last words were "Ja, das ist schon." His reference was to some wine that...