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...prelude to a House caucus on patronage six Democrats headed by Speaker Byrns marched into the White House to inform President Roosevelt that Representatives were not getting proper service on their requests for patronage, that one prominent official had actually insulted patronage-seekers by telling them to "go to hell." The President said he would investigate. As the delegation marched out one Representative grumbled: "That's just a stall...
Roared Minnesota's Schall: "To hell with Europe and the rest of those nations...
...follows, coat absent and hair flying in the wind; gentleman, supported on the slippery ice by woman, aims gun at urchin; urchin, being heroic, stands ground, grabs snow, molds missile, projects it with zeal and fervor; woman, being on ice and copiously refreshed, dedges too late; urchin runs like hell; gentleman, being gentleman, retires with woman and unshot gun; nor murders, no tutors, no harm done...
...Stocking also expounded Hell, against which he said the Congregational & Christian Churches are making an organized attack. "To save men from Hell," said the Moderator, "must ever be the motive of missions. We must have a sense of Hell, not the Hell of a onetime theological faith but the Hell that is a present observable fact. We do not need to preach Hell for there is plenty of it in the world to be seen...
...live some 5,000 monks. That they may not be led into temptation, not only are women banned but also beardless boys (under 18) and female animals whose matings might "furnish an outlandish spectacle to souls which . . . are daily being purified." Spiritually preoccupied with an attainable Heaven, an avoidable Hell, the Athonites do not always succeed in resisting the prickings of the flesh. Investigator Choukas found overwhelming evidence for the stories he had heard about the perverted tastes of these black-bonneted men of God. Nor was he pleased to find that as regards their bodies, their linen, their tableware...