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...organizations, when confronted with a series of songs which openly glorify and urge the murder of Catholics, says lamely, "We have not been convicted of incitement to violence." He then says in answer to a pointed question by Ophuls that the Catholics really are nothing more than "filth and scum and scruff because that's the way they've been brought up--something has gone wrong somewhere and that's one place to look...

Author: By John ANTHONY Day, | Title: Northern Ireland: The Life Missed | 2/17/1973 | See Source »

Accompanied by Barbara Marx, the estranged wife of Zeppo Marx, Sinatra arrived with a glare for everyone present. Maxine Cheshire, the Washington Post society columnist, approached Barbara Marx in the hotel lobby and introduced herself. Sinatra exploded. "Get away from me, you scum. Go home and take a bath. I don't want to talk to you." He continued, "I'm getting out of here to get rid of the stench of Miss Cheshire." While about 30 people looked on, Sinatra moved across the lobby, addressing a passerby: "You know Miss Cheshire, don't you? That stench...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SOCIAL NOTES: Frankie and His Friends | 2/5/1973 | See Source »

...this thing that they have done in Munich, the Black September mob are truly the scum of the earth...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Oct. 2, 1972 | 10/2/1972 | See Source »

Land of Oppressed peoples, rubbish heap of Portugal where she purges her evil and her scum...

Author: By David R. Ignatius, | Title: Gulf in Angola | 3/14/1972 | See Source »

...novel with notations even before it is published? Imagine Robert Frost publishing those terrible first drafts of his famous poems before the poems themselves came out. "I hold it very indecent that a man should publish his meditations," said the Earl of Shaftesbury. "These are the froth and scum of writing, which should be unburdened in private and consigned to oblivion, before the writer comes before the world as good company...

Author: By Sim Johnston, | Title: The American Hype Machine | 3/6/1972 | See Source »

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