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...final exams with their long memory question and 60 to 70 "spot" passages were the terror of generations. During his reign he insisted on "Shakspere" as the correct spelling. His students will never forget the pearl gray fiannel suit he invariably wore, the glasses that flew up his lapel to their hanger with never a hitch, and his pungent injunctions against coughing...
...flaunting her swastika pin where it causes trouble. Two months ago she boldly barged into a Hyde Park meeting for supporters of Leftist Spain wearing her badge, had to be rescued by London bobbies. Last week she incensed the Czechs by strolling the streets of Prague, swastika in her lapel. Display of the Nazi badge is forbidden. Anxious Prague police asked the British Legation to induce Unity to keep her badge out of sight "for her own safety...
...Vienna. Next day the locally popular Mayor claimed he had resigned before a telegram from the Chancellor demanded he take "a vacation." Graz looked like one big Nazi meeting, with Hitler's picture in every shop whose owner did not want his window smashed, with peddlers selling Nazi lapel buttons, with crowds singing the Nazi Horst Wessel song. To cow Graz, Dr. Schuschnigg promptly sent 16 tanks, army troops, 20 army bombers...
...ideologically bankrupt American Mercury and that intellectual hara-kiri found him there." Again, in 1936, when Westbrook Pegler discovered Mr. Mencken (who had stumped against Harding, Coolidge, Smith, Hoover & Roosevelt) ". . . staggering down the street under the unwieldy weight of an enormous Landon banner, a sunflower in his lapel as big as a four-passenger omelette," the New Republic elegized him, saying: ". . . Most of his virtues have declined ... all of his faults have increased...
...started the Duke out on what is to be an intensive fortnight's tour of German factories, housing and worker recreation projects by driving H. R. H. to the "model machine works" of R. Stock & Co. Taking England's onetime King repeatedly and vigorously by the coat lapel, Dr. Ley proved himself a buttonhole orator, talking loud enough to be heard ten feet away by correspondents above the whirr of machines...