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...British statesman said: "From the beginning he [Page] believed that Great Britain was right and Germany was wrong." Page wrote to Wilson speaking of "the completely barbarous behavior of Prussians." He swallowed the British propaganda whole. The day after the U. S. entered the War "a well known Englishman happened to meet Page leaving his house. . . .'Thank God' the Englishman said, 'there is one hypocrite less in London today. 'What do you mean?' asked Page. _ 'I mean you. Pretending all this time that you were neutral: That isn't necessary any longer...
Returned. For "excellent behavior" displayed in fishing his two companions, Lieutenant Dietrichsen and Mechanic Omdahl, out of polar pools into which they slipped while walking over floes from their crippled seaplane to rejoin Explorer Amundsen, the Cabinet Council of Norway last week conferred a gold medal on Pilot Lincoln Ellsworth, only U.S. member of the Amundsen polar flight which returned in safety a fortnight ago to Oslo (TIME, July...
...Pulaski, Va., one D. M. Nickels, farmer, preacherman and Bible reader, was offended by the behavior of his right hand. He forthwith laid this member on a chopping block, took a blunt hatchet in his left, hacked...
...which used to be perfectly legal when done with a stick no bigger than the thickness of his thumb. This gentle method of chastisement has now been taken away, perhaps because of too great disparity in width of thumbs, but the harassed husband is still liable for the mischievous behavior of his wife...
...Olzewska, forthwith ousted for "unseemly behavior," brought suit against the management. Meanwhile the public reacted in her favor...