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Since the Year One (of Fascism-1922) Benito Mussolini had given his people a martial slogan: "Believe! Obey! Fight!" He hurried from naval reviews to maneuvers at sea, from military exercises to parades to grandiose mock campaigns on land. He learned to salute like Caesar, scowl like Napoleon, wear uniforms like the Kaiser. Of all his Cabinet portfolios, his favorites were those of War, Navy, Air Force. He raised a whole generation of young Italians-among them his own sons -to live dangerously, to consider pacifism a bourgeois vice, to take sensuous, esthetic pleasure from the pattern of exploding bombs...
Railroad presidents who sigh when they think of the magnificent open-field technique of Vanderbilt, Harriman, Gould and Hill, sighed again last week when Leonor Fresnel Loree, on the point of turning 80. resigned as president of Delaware & Hudson Co. Mr. Loree has a beard and a ferocious scowl. But despite his age and looks, he was always only on the fringes of the swashbuckling, end-of-the-century railroad men who ran railroads, the stock-market and a few States. He was a Harriman man, less of a giant than a tall man with aspirations...
...much because of his thundering orations as because of the fact that Marie is so tender and generous in comparison. We know that he was ambitious, determined, and belligerent, not so much because he marches to and fro with his jaw protruding and his brow wrinkled in a perpetual scowl, as because Marie is by comparison so very peace-loving and kind. Mr. Boyer is the star because it is the character of Napoleon which is the center of interest; but it is the acting of Miss Garbo which makes the film memorable...
...These sweeping changes occupied Chancellor Schuschnigg the whole night. By dawn the Schuschnigg Clericals appeared to have such a stranglehold on Austria that Chancellor Schuschnigg dared to leave Vienna, hopped at 6 a. m. into a plane which flew him to Budapest in time for the funeral and a scowl from bulbous, bemedaled General Goring...
Alice's head was hurting her more than ever, and she began to scowl as much as the Red Queen. "But Marx says that economics go ever further than ever you think. Why, the whole world's run by it. History is made by economics, just like your going to the store with your pocketful of money. The whole trouble with the world is that people say, no, it isn't so. But it is! The country might be run by the people like Marx, not by people like you, and then there would be a reason for everything...