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With long-handled brushes and pots of paste, one group of bill posters hired by a Socialist political club and another group hired by a Rightist club went out into the gloom of Marseilles last week to slap their employers' respective opinions on the blank walls of the city. At the end of a street they met. Brushes went flying. Paste pots were spilled. Damp bundles of posters littered the ground. Pistols cracked in the half-light. By the time the breathless police arrived two men lay dead on the sidewalk, four others were seriously wounded...
...carrots, tomatoes and greens accounted for her living twice the normal life span of baboons. She had four children, four grandchildren, two great-grandchildren. Said Keeper Ford: "She was the finest mother I ever knew. Humans could benefit by watching her. She did not allow her children to slap their children. When she saw that done, she hit her own children and took the grandchildren away. But when the child deserved punishment, she administered it herself. Many thought her bad-tempered because she would scream and shake the cage when she saw humans slap their children...
...general dryness and unapproachable frigidity of the lecturer . . ." If your reviewer desires a slap-you-on-the-back, Y. M. C. A., up-your mark-ten-points-for-a-quart-of-rye, he's out of his element in the presence of a brilliant gentleman such as Professor Morison. The critic who confuses cultural restraint with congenital coyness ought to be drowned in his own pink ink. Samuel Eliot Morison is one of the ensiost and most sympathetic men to work with I have ever known. His ability as a stylist and an orator renders his lectures as interesting...
...this slap by Japan in China's face, Japan also slapped at the Great Powers, signatories of the Washington and London naval treaties. She did not, to be sure, stage Japanese naval maneuvers off San Francisco or Liverpool. But in Tokyo the official Foreign Office spokesman, Mr. Eiji Amau, a great adept at diplomatic nose-thumbing, called in white correspondents, gave an impressive exhibition...
Pennsylvania's President William Wallace Atterbury, General Electric's Owen D. Young and many another U. S. tycoon felt something like a slap in the face last week when one of Europe's biggest industrialists quietly dubbed railway electrification obsolete. Arriving in Manhattan for a week's visit, Managing Director Sir Henri W. A. Deterding of Royal Dutch-Shell said: "Electrification, except in a suburban way, is a thing of the past. Diesel power is far cheaper than electricity. With electricity, if the power plant breaks down, nothing moves, but with Diesel power the railways are absolutely independent. Why, Diesel...