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Three years ago Mr. Stokes, who is Managing Director of the excavating equipment makers, Ransomes & Rapier Ltd., declared: "The manufacture of shells for profit is revolting!" He offered to start making shells on a basis of "no profit and no loss" and shareholders of Ransomes & Rapier voted unanimous approval, but His Majesty's Government preferred to do business with armorers who figure on making profits, take their own risks of losses...
...dangerous inmates of other Federal prisons. Alcatraz, "The Rock," is one nightmare which the most hardened criminals, outside it as well as in, cannot laugh off. Alcatraz is a result of the Lindbergh kidnapping. It was the invention and pet project of Franklin Roosevelt's first Attorney General, rapier-nosed Homer Stillé Cummings...
Well might Edna St. Vincent Millay cry, "Oh, God, why write," if she chanced to scan TIME'S report under Science in its Aug. 30 issue. To have her scintillating, fire-refined, twice-forged, rapier-like lines from Conversation at Midnight attributed to a bearded, oldster paleobotanist who prates of speleology, must have been, to say the least, distressing to America's premier candle-at-both-ends-burner...
...muse on minor human foibles. In semi-serious vein he perennially campaigns against arsenic apple spray. He is a friend-but not, as reported by bumbling Alexander Woollcott, the founder-of the Enemies of Modern Aviation, Inc. Last week, however, connoisseurs recognized an unusually earnest thrust from the White rapier in a New Yorker paragraph which gave the President and his Court plan a pinking far more effective than the bludgeonings of his customarily solemn critics. Full text...
...waste its fragrance on the desert air..." Ah, Rjskjsky, whose rapier thrusts well mirrored the follies of the Icelandic soul. Then to my attic to nibble on Liederkranz, after which L-, Q-, P-, Shorty, and a St. Bernard named Herman rushed in and fairly dragged me away. (Gad, but am I popular!) Off to a Lithuanian picnic and feasted on pine-smelling borsch and gemutlichkeit gefuilte fish. Sweet Lithuania, haven for the true liberal! Apple-cheeked maidens dancing the traditional sklav-sklav and reminding me of my Love. Later to the attic, whisked my tails from under the mattress...