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...seat of learning that a new and important "green pea," or inexhaustible spender, had been discovered. The greatest of Mike's parties at the Copley-Plaza was attended by representatives of many feudal houses of Boston. The Prince put a sudden stop to his grandiose hospitality in order to punish the hotel for presenting a bill. "This is most presumptuous," said Mike. "My people are accustomed to receive annual statements only. I shall never patronize your hostelry again...
...Hindenburg, "I certainly do!" Besides Josef Stalin the Society of For mer Political Prisoners (all of whom must have served bona fide Tsarist prison terms for revolutionary offenses) counts some 3,000 members, estimates that they spent collectively "almost 16,000 years in chains and 5.000 years undergoing other punish ment...
When they had looked at a cartoon in Berlin's Socialist Vorwärts and read an article in Cologne's Catholic Volkzeitung the new German Cabinet of Chancellor Franz von Papen made formal demand upon the Prussian Government to punish both papers by suspending them for five days...
Socialist Severing soon announced that the Socialist cartoon was not sufficiently "coarse" to merit suppression, opined that the Catholic article was "inspired by purely patriotic motives." He flatly refused to punish either newspaper, rushed the dispute to the German Supreme Court at Leipzig. The Court at once decided that the Socialist Vorwärts must be suspended for five days, pondered whether to suspend the Catholic Volkzeitung...
...normal individuals. There "must be something about those individuals (within them) that leads them to solve their problems by means of self-inflicted death?something besides despair, financial straits, failing health. . . ." The "death drive," as he interprets it, is very often the result of an unconscious desire to punish oneself severely...