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...among humble people on both sides. Reports, never effectively denied, reached Hendaye of a revival of street fighting in Barcelona and other Leftist towns. Again & again stories came up to Madrid of abortive rebellions in Granada, Motril and Toledo. It was said that Italian troops, held in hearty disdain by Spanish Rightists since their disastrous defeat at Guadarrama in March (TIME, April 5), their poor showing at Bilbao, had been ordered to Toledo to remain in reserve for the eternally discussed final attack on Madrid. To make way for them, Spanish regulars were ordered to vacate the most comfortable barracks...
...have no jail because we don't need one. In the entire community dwell 8,000 Negroes and we have not had a capital crime in 13 years. . . . The citizens of Mound Bayou dwell in security. They are the heirs of freedom . . . and will forever look with disdain on acts of tyranny...
...National). Hero of this five-reel sport feature is one Wallace Caswell, captain of the fishing schooner Princess and constable of Panama City, Fla. Caswell. according to Lowell Thomas, whose commentary is dubbed into the silent film shot on board the Princess, conceived as a boy so trenchant a disdain for sharks, turtles, sawfish and other sea killers that upon reaching manhood he dedicated himself to slaughtering them singlehanded, using no other weapon than a fish knife...
True abstractionists have for the fur teacups, disembodied heads and limp watches of surrealism all the disdain of the conservative National Academy of Design. The basis of their philosophy is that a picture should not attempt to represent anything or suggest anything, should be an exercise in pure form, sufficient unto itself. In the introduction to the elaborate catalog of last week's show the Baroness Hilla Rebay von Ehrenwiesen, moderately well-known as an abstractionist in her own right, wrote...
...they can shoot us, and they can drown us. There's only two things they can't do to us: they can't boil us in the coppers and they can't put us in the family way." He is equally delighted to remember the disdain of one Chawbags Bayly for the microscopic difference between senior and junior mid- shipmen. Said Chawbags: "I can never see that there is any more difference between a senior midshipman and a junior midshipman than there is between a large cowpat and a small cowpat." Occasionally the force...