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...opportune moments, the Papacy can and does strike swift and sharp. Last week, in Poland, where 95% of all Y. M. C. A. members are Roman Catholics, the Archbishop of Warsaw, Alexander Cardinal Kakowski, decided to smash the "Y" at one blow. This he prepared to do by issuing a formal message to all Polish Christians...
...died in her throat. Mrs. Youmans' eyes blazed. One of her sets of thick fingers had closed around Teacher Dougherty's windpipe. The other set methodically clawed skin from Teacher Dougherty's face and clothes from her back. The fingers also doubled up and smote a blow that left lumps on Teacher Dougherty's jaw. A jury of sophisticates in nearby Haverstraw, N. Y., found Mrs. Youmans guilty of assault, battery and disturbing the peace; fined her $10. Teacher Dougherty, the jury declared, was mistress of her schoolhouse and even if Abe Conklin was the only...
...onetime (1911-13, 1913-22, resigned) Senator, now presiding Judge of Iowa in the Federal Court of Appeals, unmitigatedly damned the folly of parents who send their sons to college with automobiles, said: "Rather than do that I would buy 30 cents' worth of powder and blow him up. It would be fairer to the boy." Much more he said, called Judge Ben Lindsey's trial marriage proposal (TIME, Jan. 24) "absurd idea," said of famed evangelist Aimee Semple McPherson that she "crossed the entire country capitalizing her notoriety...
...Blow, winds, blow...
...wrote the doctor, in effect, "my cigars are terrible and I blow the smoke in my opponent's face, why do my opponents never object at the time of blowing? Furthermore, if my cigars were of inferior quality, they would destroy the subtle, inimitable fabric of my own game. Those who have seen me play and watched the smoke curve will bear witness that it curves away from rather than toward my opponent." He went...