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Wherever they rose, last week's swollen yellow rivers made news (see p. 17). At the same time, they played hob with news-gathering organizations by filling presses with mud, wrecking power lines, deranging communication. Total damage to newspaper properties soared above...
...accessories before the fact were incapacity, irresponsibility. As an eyewitness to Germany's fatal mistakes, Author Wolff lists many. She sacrificed England's all-important neutrality for a big navy. Her diplomatic service was "a stronghold of anarchy.'' The Kaiser's vacillating hysteria played hob with any sensible, straightforward policy. Author Wolff quotes some of the revealing marginalia the Kaiser was fond of jotting on state papers ("Bosh!" "What does this civilian know about it!" "Poltroon!" "Idiocy!"), gives several instances when his angry orders, if carried out, would have meant instant war. Of such diplomats...
...silk worms, roses, bees went on strike? What if Manhattan's pigeons were all killed? Miss Crane is fond of alliteration's artful aid: "Clerk and crier quaffed the quiet of the quarry." When she feels like it, she can rhyme "thorn" with "faun," play hob with King's College English. Readers who like lilt will find plenty of it, in the great tradition of Robert W. Service and Edgar A. Guest...
...Years Are So Long (TIME, July 9, 1934) showed that there is often no home for the aged, even if they have done more with their youth than gather rosebuds. If I Have Four Apples neatly demonstrates how a refusal to face the facts of arithmetic can play hob with human lives...
...longtime flea on the British lion is the Upper Mohmand tribe, a wild, haughty, hairy group of Pathans who periodically attack the Lower Mohmands, pets of the British Government, and raise hob generally in the Northwest. Time after time the British have marched into Upper Mohmand Land to protect their pets. Blandly incorrigible, the Upper Mohmands went on kidnapping and selling the women of nearby Swat, raiding the great, heavily-guarded caravan kafilas that wind under the British railway bridges through the Khyber Pass. Lately the British have busily pushed a road for the first time into Upper Mohmand land...