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...House of Representatives, the loud one was Representative James A. Gallivan of Massachusetts, whose specialty is alliterative abuse. Quoth he at the beginning of last week: ". . . Prohibition, its proconsuls, parasites, and plug-uglies . .,. has even reserved to itself and its allies a monopoly of murder-murder without penalty. The right to murder Americans abroad without fear or favor, it delegates to bandit organizations; the right to murder Americans at home by poisonous liquors remains with the Anti-Saloon League and its allied bootleggers, and the right to wreck and drown American sailors and shoot up foreign seamen goes...
...King Leonidas with his three hundred now world famous Spartan heros one day in 480, watching the approach of Xerxes and his host of iron clad companions, the sunlight slithering from plumed helmets. The battle began. Complained a Spartan warrior, "Their arrows fly thicker." "The better to shade us," quoth Leonidas...
...that this was made necessary by the threats from Communists. The Reds, on the contrary, decided to boycott the parade, to protest loudly, peacefully, far away from the "rich quarter" of the city where the "insolent cortege" is to be held. "Apres tout, mon vieux," quoth one old Frenchman to another. "Il ne sont que des gosses?n' importe quoi pourra se passer...
...sure enough there was either Will Rogers or Tom Mix riding the famous Tony and swinging the famous rope and telling fast ones while he shot buffaloes from nickles thrown by an Indian hanging in mid-air by his toes from the shoulders of a bandit. "Whee", quoth my roommate, "Whee". So then and there I decided to take him to commencement...
...extent of deserting the bull fights for the inexpensive but amusing movies. The national hero is transformed from the person of the most efficient bull artist to that of the reigning screen star, be it man, woman, child or horse. For those who dance must pay the piper, quoth the penurious Juan, and bathing beauties cost less than bulls...