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...only: William Cowper Brann (the Iconoclast). Once, on Brann's birthday, his disciple got drunk, visited his grave at Waco, and sat there all night communing with the soul of his friend, for every drink he took himself pouring an equal amount of whiskey on the sod...
...because his unswerving efforts in the Supreme Court fight and the Purge were known to be based more on loyalty than conviction, he stands almost as well with anti-Administrationists. Irish, homely, blunt, honest Joe Keenan has a few enemies, but they are mostly behind bars or under sod, like Machine-Gun Kelly...
This week the Duke of Gloucester breaks sod on a hill outside Kampala, capital of Buganda, principal kingdom of Uganda, for the stone buildings of Makerere College for Higher Education, first all-Negro university in East Africa. Recommended by a Royal Commission on Higher Education, the university will speak English, will teach the arts, science, agriculture, medicine, education, veterinary science and engineering to bright young blacks of Uganda, Kenya, Tanganyika and Zanzibar...
...wrong. Every park, garden and open space in London and other British cities should immediately be dug up in a system of twisting trenches, he declares. After puting on their gas masks, millions of Londoners should then crouch in these trenches (which would be covered with timbers and green sod to disguise them from the enemy) every time an air raid warning sounds. Meanwhile, 100,000 unemployed British miners would "win the war'' by digging hundreds of miles of tunnels 60 feet below ground...
Paris newshawks learned that not only Deputies but also clerks and the Chamber's whole staff of functionaries will get comfortable offices under the sod. Special safety doors are planned to permit members of the underground Chamber, in case of dire emergency, to escape directly into Paris' immense sewers-a connection that will produce no end of Gallic witticisms...