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Rebecca West, English lady novelist, considers this frontier, blow-in-your-pile, forty-niner spirit charming. So it may be to a few; the most delicate women may like men with hairy wrists. But New York's lumberjack psychology dispels any idea that America is civilized. Rather it seems that here are the germs of new Dark Ages...
...perhaps explain the shrillness of his note. . . . When he went to the Home Office he went with soul aflame to cleanse the social sewers. Drink, gambling, night clubs, all the brood of darkness should know that at last a real St. George was abroad in Merry England. But no blow fell. On each adventure he was quietly and painlessly disarmed, and he learned, what some of us had suspected, that Puritanism is not a strongly marked characteristic of Toryism and that it does not do to quarrel with one's bread and butter. Drink, after all, is the Gibraltar...
Naturally the German press blazed wrath. Cried the Tagliche Rundschau, organ of Foreign Minister Gustav Stresemann: "This infamous blemish on French justice in the occupied Rhineland is a blow with the fist in the face of the German people...
Died. Harry ("Berg") Berglund, 21, Minneapolis light heavyweight boxer; in Minneapolis; of a fall received from a blow in his first professional bout. His death was the second in two days from boxing, the other being that of Charles Pegulihan, French light heavyweight; in Hartford, Conn...
...some time, like moose, whales, beavers; and bearing its young alive (viviparous) instead of laying eggs (oviparous). Like its cousins it is at home in trees, but more often it lies submerged in a water-hole, with only the eyes above water. It strikes dead with a hammering head blow or seizes its prey in its jaws: secures the carcass in a coil of its body; constricts, crushing the carcass to a pulp; swallows the morsel