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...newly arrived from the prep school campus, since the recently published "Guide Book," prepared by men supposedly well versed in worldly matters, will endeavor to supply the young neophytes with confidential information concerning all the "proper" rendezvous and careful analyses of the local college women. But already rising in righteous indignation the college women of Boston and the environs have hurried vindictive cries of derision upon the all-knowing authors and the wary Freshman will do well to consider their caustic criticism...
...this time the Bar convention had become an outspoken free-for-all. The things that were said did not help the profession's standing with the general public but it did give A. B. A. members a righteous sense of housecleaning. John Edgar Hoover, Chief of the Department of Justice's bureau of investigation, leaped into the melee, shouting darkly: "I do not say that pardons have been purchased, although there have been rumors current to this effect...
...Messalina, Mae West and Pocahontas, the performers included Swimmer Helen Meany, a semi-nude showgirl and that most formidable and ubiquitous of socialites. Mrs. S. Stanwood Menken. To dine and see the pageant 251 persons had bought tickets at $7.50 each and, to give the spectacle an air of righteous charity, the profits, if any, were to go to a local fire department, a police fund, an undenominational hospital, and a Catholic hospital?St. Joseph's in Far Rockaway...
...grim determination that someone "shall be cut from ear to ear." He gets actively annoyed on the slightest provocation and his huge fists contract in his more or less consistent effort to control himself. He trembles on the brink of explosion most of the time. His indignation is righteous and his anger is of the inspiring kind that would end in a knockdown drag-out fight?if he hadn't spent 62 years learning to keep in leash. He collects, as a matter of fact, all manner of weapons and murderous devices. His manners are anything but mild. Only dogs...
...sides deadlocked in mutual, righteous hatred. Labor condemned the hard-boiled labor-hating Citizens Alliance of the employers, accused it of owning the Minneapolis press and city government, of inciting the police to shoot 50 strike pickets (TIME, July 30). As protection against the intention of employers to use police ruthlessly to crush the strike, Labor asked martial law and Governor Olson declared it, forbade picketing, forbade the movement of trucks except by military permit...