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Sirs: TIME, you slay me, not for giving Charlie Ward and Brown & Bigelow to Minneapolis, but for calling Mr. Ward an angel-even a dark one [TIME...
...report. Seldom have an innocent author's words been so maligned. A group of comparatively intelligent figures on the local scene called it a deliberate attempt "to plough under human brains." One or two of our contemporaries in Middle Western colleges thought it was a proposal to slay the first-born in every family. This was not just what the President meant, but he should have made himself clear...
...examinations from 1916 to 1931. Says Lawyer Scott: "Teaching is a profession and everyone magnifies his own profession." But he is anxious not to have his book misused for the benefit of young idlers: "The function of the home helper is a rather special one. . . . His task is to slay some lion in the path whose fierce mien is absorbing a dangerous amount of nervous energy. . . . The task of the parent instructor begins when the child is stuck. Never before...
...safe. Just before Bilbao fell, retreating Anarchists accused Miss Boland of having packed her bags, explaining that this was a sign of Rightist sympathies and that they were finishing off all such "traitors." She showed them her British passport. Tearing it up before her eyes, they proceeded to slay Governess Boland, a crime to which numerous Spanish witnesses testified...
...enemy Leon Trotsky (ne Bronstein), who now lives exiled in Norway, had provided the brains, Kamenev and Zinoviev had supplied the intrigue in Communist Party circles inside Russia, and most of the other prisoners had handled the money, forged papers and weapons which at every attempt had failed to slay Dictator Stalin. In case this academic presentation in a two-hour address should go over the heads of millions of Russians striving to comprehend in their cities, towns and villages, Prosecutor Vishinsky, showing marked deference to a once great Party figure who was Lenin's friend and is Trotsky...