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...family, plays the piano a little, fusses a lot with her clothes, is always late for appointments, is not at all hard to look at, likes the sweet tenors on the radio, plays a little contract, likes the movies and sentimental poetry and has just received a license to punish the family car. Oh! yes-and I almost forgot to say that she plans and administers the family budget with a close hand (though this may be proving too much) and yet devours TIME from cover to cover, and insists upon no less than two years subscription at a time...
...dined 17 of them, led them on to talk dangerously of what they had done, had them arrested as they left, hanged them all next day. Said he: "I abhor bloodshed, and I am greatly dissatisfied that in my short government I have been so often compelled to punish criminals with death...
...granted. Hence the mass meeting. Though there are probably not 1,000 Jews in all Japan, 2,500 solemn-spectacled Japanese trooped to a hall, heard a retired General deliver a Jew-baiting address in the best Nazi manner, and joined in a rousing song. Its chorus: Oh, punish the Jewish people- defeat the General Electric, and Break the Mazda lamp...
...Traitors Bought from Jews." They were little used. Nazi bands played lustily in the public squares to keep the populace amused and at nightfall the great boycott was over. Nazi headquarters promptly announced that the nefarious foreign Jews, whose spreading of "atrocity stories" this curious performance was supposed to punish, had all seen the error of their ways and that it was extremely unlikely that the official boycott would be resumed on Wednesday, as had been originally announced. The brownshirts went out and scraped the stickers off the stores...
Five farmers on the jury wanted to punish the defendant for meddling. It took 14 ballots to win them over to acquittal. "Bum break," growled Farmer Schroeder...