Word: hellos
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Into New York City police headquarters last week walked a twinkly-eyed little man between two Federal agents. At the desk Lieutenant James Finn, oldtime New York detective, glanced up in surprise, remarked: "Hello, Johnny. I haven't seen you in a long time." Into his handkerchief Johnny spat an inaudible reply...
...Princeton Punk, is just Papa's check, with his signature in the lower right hand corner and the $5,700 just above it, but to a mere powder monkey it's a lot to save in two years. If some Punk tries to burn me up with "Hello, Sucker," I'll plum incinerate him with an equally original "Says You." I fail to see where anyone made a sucker...
...giant clamshell crane, dynamite, a steam shovel, squads of digging miners, burrowed from four different angles on the thin chance that the trapped men might still live. A pipe was forced into the mine tomb and, six days after the cave-in, Dr. Robertson's voice cried faintly, "Hello. We are all right." All, however, were suffering from shock, starvation, exposure. Brandy, chocolate, soup, Bi-so-dol, oilskins, flashlights and candles were dropped down the 5-in. pipe. Then a new menace appeared when water began flooding the wrecked mine. With freedom or drowning a matter of hours away...
...cannot sign our names to this, but it is no crank letter. You want to know what the disabled veterans think about the World Peace-ways "Hello, Sucker" matter. Here is what two of us think, and we know there are many more who would say the same thing...
...appreciate the Legion's defense of crippled veterans in the face of unjust ridicule. Who would not rise to their defense? But "HELLO SUCKER" certainly does not ridicule. It deplores the tragedy of the veteran so maimed. It presents only the truth, harsh and startling. In war times, words are never minced. Why mince them now when peace is a great nation's wish...