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...Catholic. Like many a well-educated Catholic, he uses the instruments not of faith but of logic, thereby finds psychoanalysis illogical in its premises, highly rationalized in their proofs. That one such volume should destroy psychoanalysis is most improbable. That laymen should feel qualified either to swallow or spit out its arguments is only too possible. But that such a volume may aid in the reduction-to-scale of a science too liable to theological elephantiasis is most devoutly to be hoped...
...Wykeham (1373), decreed that its boys should talk Latin. Winchester finds it necessary to supply new boys with a glossary of its slang. Some Wykehamisms: abs (absent), chiz (cheat), cud (pretty, from couth, opposite of uncouth), infra-dig (scornful-to sport infra-dig duck, to look scornful), glope (spit), swink (sweat), thoke (idle in bed), ziph (a kind of pig Latin), plant (sock someone with a football...
...they have been afraid to say so, for fear of losing their standing. Instead, they have resorted to "educating" the American people to the real "issues" in Europe. They are hypocrites, and their writings are the purest and most vicious propaganda. In one mood, they hiss and spit their scorn of isolationism; in another they cower before it, paralyzed by a fear that keeps them from voicing their innermost feelings. But the President, as the leader of not only the United States, but the Western Hemisphere, is not the man to give way to such tactics...
...Chungking, capital of the free Chinese Republic, work was rushed on an iron statue of Wang Ching-wei, Japanese puppet installed last week in Nanking, and his wife. Pose: kneeling, like traitors about to be beheaded. Purpose: to let the populace spit on them...
Sakhalin, a 600-mile-long, fish-shaped island directly north of Japan, has always been a dark spot. Before 1850, the island was scarcely inhabited. In 1875, Japan agreed to let Russia have the whole storm-beaten spit. Russia made a grim prison of it, and every year exiled to it some 7,000 prisoners-who then had a 4,000-mile walk across the ice of Tartary Strait and Siberia to the nearest court of appeals. In the Russo-Japanese War of 1904-05, Japan won the half of the island which lies south of latitude 50° north...