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Postmaster General Frank Comerford Walker, portly, pink Democratic national chairman, once had a horrid experience with some dice-so said the National Police Gazette's publisher. Applying for restoration of the Gazette's mailing privilege (revoked for lewdness), the publisher testified that Walker had objected to the magazine's dice advertisements because he once bought a pair to entertain friends at home, took all the money with an innocent twist of the wrist, and later discovered that one of the dice was loaded. From an assistant to Postmaster General Walker, the press got the pained retort that...
...rose Michigan's punctilious, little-known Congressman George Anthony Dondero, 59, to tax his fellow Congressmen for their manners. Out went cigars, down went newspapers and cocked feet as he cried out against smoking, reading, foot-cocking, and the horrid practice of calling one's fellow statesmen by their first names. Two year ago dogged Congressman Dondero made virtually the same speech...
...teaming with George Dillon. Captain Hugh Hyde is the Crimson center, with Mike Fansler and Jack Torgan at the guards. The hoopsters lately have been like the little girl in the nursery rhyme: when they are good, they are very, very good; but when they are bad, they are horrid...
Behind all the issues of this war lies a deeper question, now posed to the world. Which do you choose-the free spirit of man and the moral idealism that has shaped the values and ideas of our civilization, or this horrid substitute, this foul obsession now resuscitated from the underworld of the past...
Purity has reared its ugly head at Radcliffe. Although the horrid event took place last spring, it was only last night that the complete story came to light...