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...Brassières: "Scratch like a vegetable grater. . . . Could hold a wild bull in leash...
...Chips, U.S. Army dog-gallantry in action. After landing at Blue Beach Chips and his handler advanced 300 yd. inland under a flurry of flares and tracer bullets. . . . Suddenly a hidden machine gun began firing from the hut on troops on the beach. Unhesitatingly Chips wrenched the leash from his handler's hand, dashed into the hut, teeth bared, and vigorously attacked...
...Japs grabbed a middle-aged storekeeper, according to Father Lebel, looped a rope around his neck and drew it down between his legs, forcing his head down to the level of his knees. "Then they made him trot along ahead of them, like some great clumsy dog on a leash. After they had gone about three miles, they got tired of the sport. One Japanese . . . took his sword and chopped off the man's head. Then all the Japanese casually sat down to lunch a few feet away...
...Paris theater as Mistinguett and Chevalier, stayed famous and wealthy through the late '20s and '30s, grew to be a legend-a gay darling who lived in a turreted chateau, surrounded herself with monkeys and birds, kept a perfumed pig. walked abroad with two swans on a leash, and fed on rooster combs and champagne. She became a French citizen in 1937 when she married a wealthy young manufacturer and amateur flyer named Jean Lion-her second husband, first white one. After the master race moved into France she moved to Morocco, and was reported to have died...
...became more than a hypothesis when the Moslem League's mouthpiece, Dawn, spoke up loudly on his behalf: "The political situation, bad as it is, would not have been worsened by Mr. Rajagopalachariar's meeting Mr. Gandhi. . . . The very idea of victory while holding India on a leash must be agreeable to the die-hards and Blimps who would love to indulge in reminiscences about India being easily controlled with the small finger of the left hand. . . . All the unrest we have is not of Congress' making. . . . The Government feel . . . that they are going to make...