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...remain there. Since 1780, when the chattering monkeys warned the garrison of a Spanish attack, the apes of Gibraltar have been tenderly cherished. In 1872 a subaltern who shot two of them for stealing his wardrobe was court-martialed, required to apologize publicly. Nowadays the apes are free to roam the Rock's caves and roads. The military administration even includes an official charged with keeping the apes alive, healthy and procreative. He is known as "0. C. Apes...
...Manager W. H. M. Watson in last fortnight's Motion Picture Herald. Manager Watson runs El Paso's Mission Theater. "From the beginning," he writes, "the boys and some of the girls . . . decided they were going to run things as they pleased." Sometimes "when told not to roam the aisles, to quit talking, smoking, etc., they would sneer or spit in your face." Plenty of the young folks smoked marijuana. In the Mission's first three months, Manager Watson lost three customers by sudden death. The Mission, Mr. Watson observes, "is not a class movie...
Churchill glanced around the gilded, be-statued House of Lords, with its bright red leather benches for 742 peers, where the House of Commons now sits.* The Prime Minister, an M.P. for 41 of the last 43 years, concluded thoughtfully: 'Mid pleasures and palaces though we may roam; be it ever so humble, there's no place like home...
...story that made aristocratic, long-faced Leverett Saltonstall hopping mad appeared last week in PM. Its charges: 1) that an "antiSemitic campaign of terrorism" had been under way in Boston more than a year; 2) that gangs of Christian Front, Coughlinite "marauders" roam the streets at night, breaking windows in Jewish stores and synagogues, beating Jews; 3) that authorities and Boston papers have been silent...
Where no others dare to roam...