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From Ghoidies and Ghosties, and long-legged beasties and things that go flop in the night?God Lord, deliver...
Scuttling beasties and things that went flop in the night helped the brown shirted followers of thundering Adolf Hitler last week win what some correspondents called "their most notable political victory since 107 of them were elected to the Reichstag": official suppression of the made-in-U. S. film All Quiet on the Western Front...
...that if you go away to play football you will be taken care of. ... We got wind of a rumor several days ago that we were all going to be dropped to shift for ourselves after the football season . . . felt that we ought to get something besides food and flop and tuition. . . . Most of us will get jobs on ships until another football season rolls around, because we can't catch on at any other college-certainly not this year...
...some degree reflected this movement. Longtime Drys began to weasel and talk of referendum while Wets plucked up new courage to speak out more boldly. The easy rapidity with which a Dry could become an extreme Wet was shown when Montana's Senator Wheeler did an overnight flip-flop on the issue...
...correspondence: "I certainly regret that we happened to strike such a line of difficult stocks. Kindly have statement made out showing all sales and purchases since last statement. . . . Managed after hard struggle to land $400 which I am enclosing. ... I am being [kept] on edge, and fear of flop in the Paige, Butterick, Porto Rico and Moon have conspired to induce pessimism. . . . Never wire Washington unless I give definite instruction. Always causes unpleasant complications...