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...defense corps and rifle clubs that popped up all over the U. S. made it plain that no mere appropriation of money could give the U. S. a sense of security, satisfy the U. S. demand for action. Springing from hysteria, an itch for publicity, a deep-seated fear that official defense measures might be botched, or a resurgence of the old backwoods instinct that nothing so calms a man's nerves as polishing a rifle, defense organizations flourished so widely last week that they belonged, as did fifth-column talk, in the category of a national phenomenon...
...Atlantic City, Dr. Reuben Friedman of Temple University told the American Association of the History of Medicine about Napoleon: he always posed with one hand under his waistcoat, said Dr. Friedman, because he suffered from dermatitis herpetiformis, an itch that attacks high-strung people...
...imitation machine gun, pull a trigger, try to shoot down a darting, fugitive image of an airplane. "No wonder players insert coin after coin-" exulted International Mutoscope Reel Co., Inc., in a broadside extolling its Sky Fighter. "It's that 'trigger-finger' itch that everyone...
...commend your analysis of the suggested proposal for the broadening of the university approach to the study of law in your editorial entitled the "Seven Year Itch." One possible misunderstanding, however, may underlic that analysis and that is your assumption that in the sixth and seventh years of study work will be divided between Law on the one hand and Government and Economics on the other. If by the phrase, Government and Economics, you imply a narrowing of that area of choice now open to college seniors concentrating in the fields of history, government, economics, and history and literature...
Northwest Passage (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer) is a grim reminder to pale faces with an atavistic itch to bag an Indian that potting "those red hellions up there" is all work and no play. So Rogers' Rangers (a band of buckskinned vigilantes) find out when (circa 1759) they put themselves in Spencer Tracy's calloused hands, shove off with him and Captain Ogden (Truman Bradley) in whaleboats for a little massacre of the Abenaki Indians...