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...last train out at night, Nuisance made it a practice to bark sharply at all sleepy sailors and tug their sleeves when the train slowed for the base. Nuisance slept, stretched out like a man, in a reserved bunk at Klaver Camp near Simon's Town, or at the Union Jack Club in Capetown, whichever was nearest, when he finished his chores...
...which he lays claim. From the time he left the Alexander I Technical College in Russia, through his years with Bell Laboratories in New York and up to the time of his present position as instructor at the Harvard Research Laboratory of Physics, his life has been a tug-of-war between Boolba the scientist and Boolba the artist. For reasons of a dietary nature (one must eat), the former eclipsed the latter--but only superficially. The "fire" still burns within, and with a little pursuasive fanning, one can readily be treated to a wisp of artistic smoke...
Roosevelt-hating Columnist Westbrook Pegler bluntly "explained" this genteel, political tug of war in a way that reflected no particular credit on anyone: "Lepke was the boss of a local of Sidney Hillman's Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America ... the union of a man who is one of the President's favorite unioneers. ... If Dewey could get possession of Lepke, he might persuade him to tell the whole story of his murderous, racketeering career in exchange for a commutation of his death sentence to life in prison...
...fishing tug Gotham went down near Saugatuck, Mich., with five aboard...
...Stalin-Trotsky feud reached a near-explosive point. In this tug of war, Molotov sided with his great and good friend Stalin...