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These Legionnaires are no longer boys, and it would appear that we could expect that they would put away childish things-or pay the penalty. A drunken bum sleeping it off in a hotel lobby or along the streets is still a drunken...
...unconstitutional will cause no enthusiasm among Republicans . . ." or anybody else whom Mr. Landon wishes to draw into the elephant's paddock in the next few years. A renaissance of the Republican party can occur only when and if Jumbo can get down to business and stop the tempting but childish political pastime of twisting the donkey's tail...
...surface the squabble seemed childish. The Portuguese Government ordered 600 light machine guns from Czechoslovak Arms Manufacturing Co. at Brno for its rearmament program. The factory first agreed to supply them, then demanded a written declaration that the arms were exclusively for the Portuguese Army, finally welched on the entire order. Portugal, insisting that the factory was actually Government owned and that cancellation of the order had been made "under pressure of those who wish to prevent or impede Portugal's rearmament," broke relations without further warning. Behind this act lay a simple inference...
...Ronnebeck design, carried it over another member's silence and Miss Evans' "no." Next day a spokes-man for Denver's women's clubs snorted that they had been "basely betrayed." Commissioner Evans resigned. Said she: "Mr. Ronnebeck's conception of Rising City ... is childish. . . . The sculptural forms seem to be commonplace. . . . To me it is clear that the Commission was packed...
Except for the charge that it is childish, nothing so angers archers as the charge that their sport is effete, and the newspapers' habit of using almost no archery pictures except those of pretty girls. Actually, archery is among the most strenuous of pastimes. At the National Archery Association's 57th annual target meeting in Lancaster, Pa. last week, major object of attention was not pretty Jean A. Tenney of Clear Spring, Md., who won the women's championship on the meet's third day, but the 106-man shooting line...