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...discovered "obscene" passages on 92 pages of the book, prodded police to seize the 398 copies in its publisher's stockroom. Said Dial Press Publisher George W. Joel: Not one of "approximately sixty reviews . . . mentioned any obscenity. As a matter of fact, we consider it very tame...
...nice fantasy idea, handled with a nice sense for prankish complications, A Highland Fling just isn't written with enough gusto or grace. Its romantic moods never quite blend Scotland with fairyland; the thistle is there, but not the thistledown. And its fun is too often tame and even cute - a sort of A. A. Milne version of Tam O'Shanter...
...firing furnaces aces, he worked his way through two years at Nevada School of Mines by mining gold and silver at Carson City and Virginia City. After this he gave prospecting a try, trudging through various parts of Arizona, New Mexico Colorado, California, and Nevada. Finding this life too tame, he turned to studying in Hollywood, where among other things he staged the fights and appeared in all the Tarzan pictures. You might have seen him fighting in the trees of under water in these films. He is also a qualified electrical operator and has thrown his Kleigs...
Griffiths does not know the reason for the difference between wild and tame rats, but he is inclined to think that vitamin and mineral deficiencies in the diet of laboratory rats may have something to do with it. He has also found some evidence that wild rats, like other city dwellers, develop relative immunity to noise...
Winston Churchill, defending his advocacy of an understanding with Russia, once declared: "I would make a pact with the devil himself if it would save England." Now Hitler twisted this symbolism: "It will not be Great Britain who will tame the Bolshevik devil, but Bolshevik poison will eat up Britain more and more and lead her to ultimate disintegration...