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George Washington chopped down the cherry tree in order to get a cherry for his Old Fashioned," revealed Gretchen Flyspect, noted 18th century poetess, last night. When approached by his father, George admitted the heinous deed but promised there would be No Crime tomorrow...
...clair) and the slowdown (grève perlée). A red-hot anarcho-syndicalist risen from the factories, Jouhaux liked to boast that if war came, labor in all Europe would quench it by a general strike. But when war came, Jouhaux was a Frenchman after all. ("Heinous traitor," shrieked Lenin...
...singing a romantic ballad from Chairman Mao Tse-tung's favorite drama, The White-Haired Woman.* Then Police Chief Ho Yah read the charges against the accused. The audience responded with the usual chants of hate and death. An actress emerged from the crowd, accused her father of heinous crimes, including rape, and demanded his death. The prisoners were loaded in trucks and driven off to execution grounds. The youths of the city formed rings around the trucks and danced the gay yangko (harvest dance). Some 600,000, said the Red press, witnessed the killings...
...foment, no bubbling cauldron. We could not conceive of the American Legion picketing the Experimental Theatre today, as it did in the '30's; nor could we imagine a group of us sponsoring speeches by strike leaders in 105 Dartmouth; a Marxist Study Club today would sound heinous to the present undergraduate, and Humphrey C. Pheep might find the old Junto "subversive." There aren't enough of us to keep a Leftwing Political club alive, nor is there enough interest to bring up speakers from the camp of opposition. We've stopped listening to the Other Side, ceased reading...
...heinous result of this [proposed] legislation is something which the average layman has doubtless not considered. That is, what effect would the actual commission of the 'mercy-killing' have on the doctor who performed it? . . . Soon the medical profession would lose the healthy bloom associated with the bringing forth and maintaining of life and it would acquire some of the unsocial, morbid air surrounding the hangman's trade...