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...internationally great Anarchist thinkers, Russian Prince Peter Kropotkin, who was the perfect prototype of "Bearded Anarchist", expired peacefully near Moscow in 1921. Not international thinkers but intensely local Barcelona doers by "direct action" are Newshawk Duranty's new news subjects. Anarchist Durruti goes so far as to scoff contemptuously at the Spanish Government, friendly though it is to Barcelona, charging that in the Cabinet there are ministers who secretly want Generalissimo Franco to take Madrid because they think that unless he does all Spain may go Anarchist...
...unmarked grave in Pere-Lachaise Cemetery now rises a three-tiered monument, blazoned with plaques of rose-colored marble bearing the names of the hero's descendants also buried there and the dates of his victories. Last week news of the North Carolina venture made Pere-Lachaise keepers scoff anew at a chestnut which had been popping fitfully for years. At No. 20 Rue Quentin-Bauchart, the Duchess of Elchingen, relict of a Michel Ney who died in 1931, vigorously denied that her husband's great ancestor was buried in the U. S. In Charlotte Davidson College librarians...
...common knowledge that the principles of communism are the antithesis of those generally held by most Americans. They scoff at the belief in the Supreme Being, in the brotherhood of man, in the virtue of women, the marriage institution, as well as the personal relations between parent and child...
Departmental Ditties were dashed off in India and printed by Cub Reporter Kipling himself in spare moments, then sold by postcard solicitation to Pukka Sahibs with an ease which made Salesman Kipling scoff contemptuously in later years when fashionable publishers tried to cry into his ale about the "risks" they say they take. He took his own risks by striking out around the world, landing in California and being turned down by editors all the way across the U. S. and back to England. Then suddenly his work caught on and from a deep trunk crammed with Indian yarns...
Purcell would invite to a game those who scoff at badminton as a "non" sport. "I could have them flat on their backs and gasping for breath in a few minutes," he exclaimed. He feels, however, that this attitude will soon be gone, and the game will be as popular here as it is in Canada and England...