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...bands played the quick sad songs they had marched to almost 30 years ago-"After the Ball," "Just as the Sun Went Down," "Goodbye Dolly Gray." On the sidewalks girls cheered and threw flowers just as other girls had once thrown flowers to soldiers who, instead of waving, had spit tobacco juice on the pavement. The Maine. Almost 30 years ago, in theatres, in parks, in fairgrounds a thousand brass bands played "Dixie" and a song that started, "Spain, Spain, Spain, you ought to be ashamed. . . ." People sang the words and waved their caps; the whole country was talking about...
...super-dreadnoughts of the U. S. Navy really spit 18-and 20-inch shells as reported in TIME, April 25, p. 8, col. 3 ? I have been out of touch with the Navy since the War but am of the opinion that 16-inch guns are the largest yet installed on our ships. However, more power to the Navy, and yourselves...
...years ago the Atlantic Monthly asked the question, "How can a man get off a frictionless plane?" It was a Harvard professor who supplied the only satisfactory answer when he replied: "The only way to get off to the north is to spit to the south...
...cook came to Manhattan last week in the imperial suite of the Berengaria, proceeding thence to the Ritz. Dazzled, newsgatherers hailed Mrs. Rosa Lewis as the most exalted onetime scullion who ever lived, remembering that she and the late Edward VII were once close as two quails on a spit. Callow, the newsgatherers betrayed an ignorance of great scullions, cooks, laundresses...
...therefore set yourselves to gain instruction. . . . Horny hands are not enough to prove a man capable of guiding a state. . . . We must abandon the great phrase of 'Liberty.' There is another . . . 'Discipline'! . . . Liberty is not an end, it is a means. . . . If by 'Liberty' be meant the right to spit upon the symbols of Religion and of our Native Land and of the State, very well; I as Head of the Fascisti declare that this 'Liberty' shall never come into existence. . . . Fascism throws the noxious theories of so-called Liberalism upon the rubbish heap. . . . The truth, manifest henceforth...