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Since the Year One (of Fascism-1922) Benito Mussolini had given his people a martial slogan: "Believe! Obey! Fight!" He hurried from naval reviews to maneuvers at sea, from military exercises to parades to grandiose mock campaigns on land. He learned to salute like Caesar, scowl like Napoleon, wear uniforms like the Kaiser. Of all his Cabinet portfolios, his favorites were those of War, Navy, Air Force. He raised a whole generation of young Italians-among them his own sons -to live dangerously, to consider pacifism a bourgeois vice, to take sensuous, esthetic pleasure from the pattern of exploding bombs...
Tensely the gallery watched. Nonchalantly, as if he had been tutored by Walter Hagen, Jimmy sauntered up to his ball, smiled at it in almost mock tenderness, then suddenly looked up and chirped: "Would anyone like to sink this one for me?" While the gallery chuckled, Jimmy plopped his ball into the cup, chalked up his fifth victory in two months...
...spectators were cheering him wildly. Exhilarated, Godoy put on a performance as bizarre as any thing ever seen in a first-class prize ring. Deliberately tormenting Louis, he jumped up & down like a boy playing squat tag, grimaced & grinned and finally, after doing a few mock rumba steps, threw his arms around the champion and kissed him on both cheeks. A few moments later, when Louis was awarded the decision, Godoy hugged him again & again...
...forbidding the raising of pigeons in order to insure that householders' wells will not be contaminated by droppings. Cambridge isn't the only town with ridiculous, unenforceable laws. But that isn't much of an excuse for deliberately writing such laws into the books. To do so means to mock the whole system of rule by law. Perhaps Mickey knew that his little brain-child was a bastard, that it would be duly declared unconstitutional after blocking up the proceedings of the courts for several months, that it could never be enforced. As a matter of fact, he didn...
...yelled McDermott, who is wonderfully kind to cub reporters but a bull dog to rowdy ones, "cut that out, or we'll throw you out." "I'll ask the boss about that," said Wilson in a mock huff, and walked down the hall to the office of the then Assistant Secretary of State Nelson Trusler Johnson (who had just been notified of his appointment as Minister to China). Two hours later someone put his head in the Assistant Secretary's door. Nelson Johnson and Lyle Wilson were tossing the airplane at each other, laughing like ten-year...