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Oahu Taken. At dawn the Hawaiian attack began. Into the mist, the Saratoga and Lexington launched a swarm of planes. On Oahu the Army, whose great searchlights had fingered the sky all night, was ready. Nine thousand men from Schofield Barracks were deployed in the underbrush. Anti-aircraft guns nosed up into the morning sunlight. From Luke and Wheeler Fields, Army planes took the air to repulse the "Black" attack. The bristling guns of the Coast Artillery held the "enemy" fleet out of range at 7½ miles. Though not a shot was fired nor a bomb dropped to disturb...
...vote), rice and butter fat, thereby upsetting the "exportable surplus" theory. Efforts to put corn, blackstrap molasses, flaxseed and goats into H. R. 13,991 were beaten. Instead of leaving enforcement to each community the bill turned over the whole job to the Secretary of Agriculture and a swarm of Federal Agents whose duty it would be to watch the doings on each & every one of the 6,300,000 U. S. farms. Bounties would not be apportioned by States and then counties, but would be paid out to every farmer who said he had cut his production 20% below...
...about slapping faces, seizing cigars and pipes, and crying that every-one at Harvard was a hellion. The students enjoyed every bit of it, and proceeded to swarm about her and sweep her to Sanders Theatre. The boys smashed their way through the door and triumphantly carried Mrs. Nation onto the stage. The crusader again attempted to speak, but the 2000 men who jammed the hall vociferously drowned her out. Someone presented her with a bunch of crysanthemums, which she accepted with profuse bows and acknowledgements...
Italian politics in the days of ruthless Lorenzo the Magnificent and astute Niccolo Machiavelli were scarcely more tortuous than German politics today. Last week a fog of intrigue hung thick over official Berlin as a swarm of airplane-riding Nazis (Fascists) flocked vulture-like to the Capital. Their meat was the sudden resignation of Germany's autocratic and aristocratic Cabinet, headed by Oberst-leutnant (Lieut.-Colonel) Franz von Papen, mosthated Chancellor in modern German history...
...perform it at all. Berlioz blared out his indignations as he did much of his music. When a French editor undertook to improve on one of Beethoven's symphonies. Berlioz introduced a monolog into his Lelio cursing out all such desecrators: "They are like the vulgar birds that swarm in our public gardens and perch arrogantly on the most beautiful statues; and when they have fouled the forehead of Jupiter, the arm of Hercules, or the bosom of Venus, strut about with as much pride and satisfaction as if they had laid a golden egg." Composing never made...