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Come-On. In Los Angeles, eleven-year-old Charles Gallenkamp taught his dachshund to lick war stamps, sold several hundred dollars' worth to fascinated spectators...
...glib, vulgar, slippery little jackleg . . . that posturing sometime reformer . . . the twenty-two goats and monkeys who composed the grand jury . . . this blank-brained menagerie, bamboozled by transparent obfuscations ... the gang of sneaking child-cheaters . . . these two low, skulking rogues . . . and the rest of the besotted judicial jackals . . . illiterate imbeciles . . . lick-spittle timeservers and chore-boys . . . aromatically crooked as a skunk's hind leg. . . . The corruption of these abject poltroons is merely one example of the corruption which infects our entire judicial system . . . these esurient, self-seeking herding jerks...
Although Bert Haines' '45 oarsmen will not have a lick at the cup itself, which is awarded to the winner of the Varsity race, they will have a chance to show their worth against the Yale and Princeton Freshman crews in the regatta...
Needless of the Crimson Varsity's 19-day breather, the Eastern Intercollegiate Baseball League whirls on to the completion of its 1942 campaign. Not until May 9, when it meets Columbia on Soldiers Field, will the Harvard nine have another lick at Ivy circuit competition...
Actually, Britons have precious little even to lick this spring, but they are not grumbling because they know that Food Minister Lord Woolton is doing about everything possible with the supplies available. Not only is the meat ration down to 25? per week per person, but 3? of it must be taken in corned beef, thus lessening the possibilities for stews from weekly roasts. Offals (liver, brains, kidneys, etc.) are still unrationed, but most of the supplies have been sent to the canning companies. Rarely now can British families sit down to a dinner of their beloved steak & kidney...