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Like Balaam, the leader hadn't started out that way. A fortnight ago, Rival Editor Cummings had given the Beaverbrook press a resounding thwack. "The Daily Express," he wrote in his News Chronicle column, "seems to have the British Empire on the brain ... It opposes Marshall aid and Western Union as policies inimical to the Empire [and] keeps up its dreary drip of criticism unfortified by any rational alternatives...
...darling of the cameramen was tiaraed Mrs. Frank Henderson, identified by Knickerbocker as "The Milton Berle of Society." Betty Henderson "came in directly behind Mrs. Kavanaugh," giggled Society Columnist Charles Ventura in the World-Telegram, "and suffered a sound thwack over the tiara with a folded program by a dowager who resented having to wait in a drafty doorway until Betty was photographed. . . ." The press heard that she had paid only $48.25 for her gown at S. Klein's. She even put a 71-year-old leg up on a table in the Opera café, and repeated...
Picking up whatever implements they could lay their hands on, a band of marauders broke into the school and proceeded to thwack, whack, hack their way through each & every one of its dozen classrooms. They battered blackboards into slate piles and desks into kindling, doused gobs of ink on walls, disemboweled a piano, scuttled kitchen 'equipment, tore up writing paper, tore down wall clocks, scattered movable and immovable objects on the floor until thousands of dollar? of damage had been done and the building looked like a Hollywood set at the end of an Edward G. Robinson cinema. What...
While driving past Massachusetts Institute of Technology's swank No. 6 Club in Cambridge, Mass, one night, many a motorist was startled by a loud thwack on the roof of his car. Finally one driver stopped, found that his car had been dented, notified police. Few minutes later two patrolmen in a cruising car pulled up in front of "No. 6 Club, waited to be thwacked, were not disappointed. Spying a raised, unlighted window on the third floor, they sneaked upstairs, found Cornelius Van Shaack Roosevelt, 19-year-old son of Colonel Theodore Roosevelt, a friend named Peter...
...house were five Senators and six Representatives, Democrats all, who had just arrived from Washington for a party conference with their national leader. The Communists shook fists, hooted, yelled. The Congressmen beat a quick retreat inside the Roosevelt home. The police with many a fisticuff and nightstick thwack cleared East 68th Street. All was again quiet when Mr. Roosevelt and his visitors settled down comfortably in an upstairs study for a heart-to-heart talk...