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Like all good facts, statistical or otherwise, it may be bent to prove almost anything and one may find in it, as in the Bible, whatever one looks for. The bad boy from Baltimore, Mr. Mencken, will no doubt declare it proof incontrovertible of hopeless literary flabbiness, and the flag-waving Mr. Sherman will somehow find in it another splendid victory for "the American spirit". But who can imagine Messrs. Sherman and Mencken on any common ground...
...rowed more than 7,000 miles in an 11-foot shell. He celebrated his seventieth birthday by a pull to Watertown Dam and back. "Thus," he says, "I have tried to keep up through mature life the bodily activity to which I was used as a boy...
...proposal in action is very simple, the principle being that of the small boy's allowance. As long as a nation does not fight or play around with rowdy nations, Uncle Sam will give it all the bright shiny pennies and loans and credits that it may want. But should it do anything that might be called naughty Uncle Sam will be severe and not grant it even the most secured dollar's credit. Thus Uncle Sam with his money bags will stand guard over the dove of peace...
...staring into a mirror of their misery, Germans gazed at their newspapers, read of an appalling crime. Two boys, one 16 years old, the other 14, entered their parents' bedroom where they were sleeping with their two small daughters. The 14-year-old boy hit each of them on the head with a hammer; the older boy killed each with a hatchet. This was in the village of Weiher, near Kulmbach, Bavaria...
Among the lists of laughter set to music, the following are particularly acceptable: I'll Say She Is, Big Boy, Ziegfeld Follies, Lady, Be Good; Rose-Marie, The Grab Bag, Chauve-Souris...