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...Great Lakes in Ontario's twin cities, Port Arthur and Fort William (pop. 55,000), the cry of secession was heard last week. The man who raised it was Fort William's ex-Mayor Chisholm Ross, who objects to being governed from Ontario's capital, smug and self-centered Toronto, 800 miles southeastward...
...faces, shown in the book's 150 portraits, were good. They were grave and unaffected, erring, if in any way, on the side of gentleness. Their children were full of grace. The young women were fragile, and the young men were self-satisfied without being either complacent or smug. Their elders were benign, mellowed, trustworthy. They dressed comfortably (there are some 50 pictures of their Sunday and everyday costumes in the book). They built good houses, good ships, strong forts, sturdy barns. They drew good plans for them. They carried muskets so formidable that many a contemporary householder...
...wrong with wartime advertising. A twice-wounded, discharged U.S. soldier named William J. Caldwell was telling them. Said he to the artists: go easy on those drawings of bright-eyed, posturing, immaculate soldiers. Such pictures merely irritate the weary, muddy boys in the foxholes. To the copywriters: watch those smug and boastful headlines...
Next, go to your radio set. Approach the object with all the pent up sneer you can muster. (This last direction is straight from Frend.) Then, with rapidly successive strokes, pluck each shiny tube from its smug receptacle, clutch gleefully in both hands, and with a heinous whoop," or whatever other sound may best express your innermost emotions, smash one at a time against the book-piled desk at which you've sat so many hot nights. After this act of delicious reprisal, grab the nearest blunt weapon, and bludgeon to permanent silence the obstinate object of your electronic muddle...
...balding, soft-spoken Representative Herman P. Eberharter, New Dealer from Pittsburgh, introduced a bill to forbid between-census reapportionment. But even he admitted sadly that: 1) his bill had no chance of passing; 2) it was too late anyway. He and other Democrats threatened a court fight. Republicans stayed smug and happy...