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Wherever the hideout is, it is a rude spot. At the last minute it was decided not to take 4-year-old Prince Sahle Selassie there, but to keep him in the royal palace with the Emperor. Crown Prince Asfa Wassan, 19, is already with the troops (TIME...
...company of Vermont boys ambushed a company of regulars and fired point blank into them. A valiant Vermonter went to port arms and demanded, according to the rules of sham battle, that a regular in an exposed position surrender. The regular made a pass with his bayonet and several rude remarks. The Vermonter got a nasty gash under the eye. Thereupon the Vermonters clubbed two regulars unconscious with their rifles before umpires could interfere. After that the umpires made a strict rule that opposing forces could not approach within 300 yards of each other...
...Chicago Press, once over the difficulty of Bauer's dreadful injury by calling it variously "penknife mutilation," "sex-operation," "rude emasculation," straightway pointed "The Finger of Suspicion" at Mandeville Zenge...
...publishers. So savagely did the Journal attack Governor Talmadge last summer that that "cracker" politician angrily referred to Editor Cohen as "Jake the Jew,"* urged his supporters to cancel their Journal subscriptions, switch to the Constitution. Crowning outrage to the Grays last week was Governor Talmadge's rude seizure of the Democratic National Committeemanship left vacant by Editor Cohen's death...
...have to follow his rocketing, pinwheeling copy. Whether Poet Cummings has started a tradition of his own is a question that only posterity will answer. To his own day he looks like a one-man poetic party. As leftwing, literarily, as they come, he is antipolitical; he pulls rude but only partly understandable faces at Communists, New Dealers and GOPartisans alike. Poet Cummings' typographical cavortings are so extreme that even his best critical friends have a hard time defending him from the natural suspicion of being nothing but a leg-puller; but readers of his war autobiography (The Enormous...