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Healthy British humor continued to offset even such grisly prospects. In the Evening Standard inimitable Low cartooned two Britons with back-scratchers in a Turkish bath, one saying to the other: "Gad, sir, Mussolini is right! How can we expect him to behave decently, if we object to his dropping gas bombs...
Oldsters in Clubland. In gouty circles of extreme Tory diehardism last week elderly Britons were incautiously beginning to vow in their London clubs that "By Gad, Sir, this Rearmament will give us back Old England!" They were cocksure that the proletariat, kept increasingly busy and well paid on munitions orders, will make no trouble and that Imperial Defense will work out in such a way as to squash even those malcontents the Free State Irish by transferring to the west of the British Isles beyond the immediate reach of German air attack enormous new concentrations of Might...
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People! Nov. 18! Ethel Barrymore and a cargo of Bronx cheers for every performance! Of all the - -* women she undoubtedly takes the highest honors. In truck drivers it is temper, in artists it is temperament. . . . A lady, gad...
...This lack of spirit in those days was a precious thing, and a contagious thing. Every Harvard team from football to chess reflected it, and lost gracefully to Yale with a consistency that enervated H men from the third story cheer leader to President Lowell. By Gad, there never was a class like 1925, and the old lack of spirit prompts one to rise up and demand that the College mend its ways. Are we men or are we mice? Come on, fellows. Let's get aport and not back the team the way we didn't back...