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...Shall I give you a slap as I did last September?" he croaked...
...Never mind," said Little Latmaja. "One slap was enough. I admit you are strong...
...little Chancellor Engelbert Dollfuss last week fought on, lone effective champion against seeping German Naziism whose cells are sprouting not only in Austria, but Hungary, Czechoslovakia, and the German minorities of Jugoslavia and Rumania. To his aid unintentionally came Germany's Adolf Hitler. Affronted by Dollfuss' slap last fortnight to Nazi Envoy Hans Frank. Hitler countered last week with a 1,000-mark ($272.50) visa charge for Germans visiting Austria. This was a $3,000,000 slap to Austria's tourist business. But it squelched patriotic Austrians who have wanted a Middle European combine (an-schluss...
...Fence on the Old Campus while hundreds of other students and guests looked on from the sidelines and from surrounding dormitory windows. Out among the juniors would pass 60 grave-faced seniors, one at a time, each hunting a certain man. When the senior found his junior he would slap him on the back and bark, "Go to your room!" Such was Yale's "Tap Day." when the four secret senior societies (Skull & Bones, Scroll & Key, Wolf's Head, Elihu Club) chose members. A distinctly grim overtone accompanied the proceedings-the chagrin and bitterness of men who hoped...
...fairy godmother of Fascist Germany, Fascist Italy could make no open remonstrance. In fact Italian newspapers started attacking exiled Albert Einstein last week and Il Duce himself assured the Italian people that there was no truth in stories of anti-semitic attacks in Germany. But Mussolini took a backhanded slap at Hitler by repeating in the same interview that Jews enjoyed complete freedom in Italy and while he remained in power they always should. Privately, Pilgrims von Papen & Goring were assured that Italy would not countenance political union of Austria and Germany and that Mussolini still hoped to work...