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Four spring dances are in the offing for the QM unit, the first of these being sponsored by "Saber and Key", QM organization, and to be held on Friday evening, March 5, in Carey Cage...
...Karl Muck leered over him on the conductor's stand, snapping the chords from the orchestra as a Mephistopheles would crack a whip over his minions, and the two played into each other's hands with a deviltry beyond words. Hah! The intrepidity, the dash, the saber and spur of it, the wild exhilaration, the reckless mastery of the whole business...
...Poland, in Austria and throughout the Balkan peninsula, more angry and embittered objectors to Hitler's New Order dug gun or saber from under the floor and went off to mountain passes or to city cellars to kill Germans. Last week...
...Consciousness. To Occidentals, no Hindu deity is stranger than Kali. "She wears necklaces of gold and pearls, a golden garland of human heads, and a girdle of human arms. . . . She has four arms. The lower left hand holds a severed human head and the upper grips a bloodstained saber. One right hand offers boons to Her children; the other allays their fear. The majesty of Her posture can hardly be described. It combines the terror of destruction with the reassurance of motherly tenderness...
...Hickory, who knows his politicians, rattles his saber, polishes off the choice Maryland rye that teetotaling Holden fetches him from the drugstore, and bellows: "Rascals and poltroons! Every one of 'em. If I were in charge, I'd do with them what I should have done to Henry Clay." "What's that?" inquires Holden. "Hang 'em!" says Old Hickory...