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...Hellenic Society. For his politicking, Herman won some patronage: the Pan Hellenic presidency in his senior year. Like his father, he joined the Phi Kappa debating society, but there was a difference in their styles. Campus audiences remembered Gene's chewing tobacco while he declaimed, pausing periodically to spit with wondrous accuracy into a nearby potbellied stove. They remember Herman because he always brought along a claque to touch off appropriate applause for his important points...
...considers it "derogatory to Army leadership during combat." A more serious charge is that the picture spends more time making melodrama than making sense. Even in its fighting, the dice are curiously loaded: the G.I.s are shown as tattered scarecrows on the edge of exhaustion in contrast to the spit-and-polish Nazis, who wear uniforms more appropriate to the parade ground than to combat. A similar imbalance flaws the plot. Smithers, though he has the courage to murder his captain, is earlier depicted as a man too irresolute to take command even when Eddie Albert is totally incapacitated...
...years before he got his comeuppance. During that time he "laid down a coherent program of legal enactments, maintained an orderly society, and actively promoted the well-being of his subjects." Besides, murder was "the accustomed fate of deposed monarchs . . . Edward II was murdered, perhaps by a red hot spit thrust up his bowel. Richard II was starved, poisoned or hacked by steel . . . The feeble-witted Henry VI ... put to silence." So, guilty or not guilty, Richard demands-through Historian Kendall-a measure of sympathy. His predecessors were brutes. His successors were brutes. Richard, too, was just an average brute...
...time he made a game-saving catch, even the cheers sounded like jeers to Terrible-Tempered Ted. His neck swelled, his eyes bulged, his blood pressure soared, and he popped off in a reaction which had been puzzling dugout scientists for weeks: turning to the crowd, he began to spit like an alley cat. The Red Sox's General Manager Joe Cronin made a hasty diagnosis, this time prescribed a generous dollop of a tested home remedy. He fined Ted $5,000. One of the best batters in baseball history had finally matched Babe Ruth, whose Lucullan feats with...
...Christian, but when we got to Baghdad, I found he was no Christian. He was all Arab. When an Arab marries, he doesn't want a wife or a companion; he just wants a slave. They treat their women like dirt-worse than dirt. They slug them and spit in their faces and then go off and leave them at home while they go sit in these coffee houses. Even before we left Tacoma, he used to go out to a tavern some nights and leave me at home with baby. I told him I wouldn't stand...