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These outsize military heads are also useful for 1) plugging breaches in nests and runways until the workers can repair them, 2) pounding loudly against the walls to warn other termites of danger-a sound often heard by exterminators...
...OTHER HORSEMAN-Philip Wylie -Farrar & Rinehart ($2). The old story from which Philip Wylie gets his title is better than the story he tells. The old story: There was a fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse, who galloped ahead of the others to warn people that they were coming. Realizing as he returned through a devastated world that nobody had heeded his warning, he became so disgusted that he joined the other Four Horsemen in destroying what was left of human life. The Fifth Horseman's name: Reality...
Columnist George Fielding Eliot called for a civilized reprisal. His idea was to warn Germany by radio that one of ten named villages would be destroyed from the air, then to destroy one of the ten. He thought the trouble the Germans would have in evacuating ten villages would have a sobering effect; or, if they did not evacuate, that their own people would make trouble...
After Repeal, when Asher broke with Paul V. McNutt's local politicians, his noisy cafe, the "Wig-Warn," lost its liquor license. When HOLC foreclosed on him, he broke with Roosevelt and started X-Ray ("A Beacon for Taxpayers and Honest Labor"). In its five years its circulation has wavered between...
...instance, he said absolutely nothing to imply that "Accurate vision without eyestrain is of front-line importance," or even that "best performance comes from Shuron Shurset Full-Vue glasses of Quality Beyond Question." And he left it for some enlightened advertising manager to warn: "Don't be a Public Enemy. Be patriotic and smother sneezes with Kleenex...