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...life of an animal protector is not an easy one. "Malicious meddler" is one of the mildest names apt to be shouted by people accused of maltreating their animals. They may be even more bitter if the protector is a beauteous society woman who was once a famed public character. Irene Castle McLaughlin, whose zeal for animal welfare is now almost as famed as were her dancing and style-setting in pre-War days, found that out again in Waukegan, Ill. last week...
...years that debts and reparations should be cancelled, that the Polish Corridor was an invention of the devil, but these honest opinions in the mouth of a politician are for Europe nothing short of deadly weapons of aggression. Warsaw's newssheets shouted "Borah, a German Agent," the mildest adjective that Paris papers found for him was "naïve." Intentionally or not Mr. Borah had stolen the show of Laval's visit...
...Budapest, Otto's birthday created only the mildest flurry. By order of the Regent, Admiral Nicholas Horthy de Nagybanya, no flags were displayed on government buildings, but even on the private homes of loyalists there was a dearth of bunting...
...audience is to a large extent the radio audience of the U. S., the producers of any effort whose cast included Amos (Freeman F. Gosden) and Andy (Charles J. Correll) could be certain of attention at the box office. But material like this could command nothing but the very mildest attention if the radio audience were not the cinema audience. The explanation of the success of the blackface pair in broadcast is that they have created a fiction just funny enough to make people want to hear its nightly continuation and not long enough to let them become bored. Served...
Says he: 70% of all convictions are obtained by forced confessions. Mildest method: protracted questioning, sometimes going on continuously for over 24 hours, keeping the prisoner awake, thirsty, hungry. Usual method: beating the prisoner about the head and neck with lengths of rubber hose (which leave no bruises). If that fails to work, fists, boots, bats, lighted cigars may jog the suspect's memory. Scars or bruises are explained by saying the prisoner "fell downstairs." But Lavine tells of other refinements: "I have seen a man beaten on the Adam's apple so that blood spurted from...