Word: headlessness
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...yearly "Conventions" with men in uniforms bowling down Main Street, slapping each other on the back, singing rowdy songs, drunk at the intersection trying to direct traffic with a cardboard whistle. Later, war movies, R. O. T. C. parades, University Gothic towers with memorial plaques, billboards plastered with legless, headless portraits labeled "The Horror of It." June 1935 at last and graduation, and even then commencement speakers shouting "Stand up for peace!" while newspapers bellowed "Be prepared...
With his usual audacity, Mr. Hoeing held it off with a stick until two Yard cops helped him down the amazed animal. Leaving it dead and headless, he retired to Holworthy, the proud possessor of the bloody token of his prowess...
Thus, one is again forced to the conclusion that the Republican Party is nothing but an uncritical headless opposition. With no principles to guide it, and no leader to enforce them, it has been unable to adapt itself as a critical anti-administration party. This function, intelligently performed, is as essential to the efficient operation of our two-party democracy as able leadership by the group in power. Unless it can show its usefulness, which entails a complete reorganization, the Republican Party is doomed to oblivion...
...unwholesome taint hung last week over Brighton. The feminine mayor of this most respectable resort on the whole so-called "British Riviera" was almost frantic when embarrassed policemen broke the news to her. In the parcel room of balmy, blissful Brighton's sprawling railway station the headless, armless, legless torso of a woman had been found in a small trunk. Shrilled Mayor Margaret Hardy: "This case belongs to London! Nothing like this has ever happened before in Brighton...
...Calcutta leaders of the international Theosophist Society, headless since the death of Mrs. Annie Besant last year (TIME, Oct. 2), elected as their new president Dr. George Sidney Arundale, 55, rugged onetime bishop of the Liberal Catholic Church in Australia. Long a student of Theosophy which at some points duplicates the occult tenets of Liberal Catholicism, Dr. Arundale has been a pedagog in India, a member of the Worshipful Company of Pewterers, a Freeman of the City of London. He once tutored sallow Jeddu Krishnamurti whom Mrs. Besant hailed as a messiah. Year ago Dr. Arundale brought his pretty Hindu...