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...point system of determining who today is the world's No. I Terrorist must credit Joseph Stalin with having set (Continued on p. 8) bombs which killed Tsarist officials; dynamited safes and robbed trains to get funds for the Communist Party (valuables thus obtained being disposed of in part through Fence Litvinoff); and later as Dictator occasioning the deaths of thousands of Russians by his drastically obeyed order to "liquidate the kulak as a class." Let not Reader Ober rob the Dictator of terroristic laurels sweet to an Old Bolshevik whose proudest boasts are always about the number...
...unturned (500 B.C.). Origins of this typical ancient proverb are shrouded in the past. Perhaps it refers to Greek crab-fishermen, perhaps to a legend of the Battle of Salamis, when a greedy Theban, digging fruitlessly for Persian treasure, was thus slyly advised by Delphi's oracle. To rob Peter to pay Paul (Wyclif, 1380). Still waters run deep (1430). A hair of the dog that bit you (1546). God tempers the wind to the shorn lamb (thought by many to be a Biblical quotation, by a more knowledgeable few the invention of Laurence Sterne, this proverb goes back...
...year in mad gyrations which, of necessity, have left the growers of them speculators against their will. . . . We sought to stop the rule of tooth & claw that threw farmers into bankruptcy or turned them virtually into serfs, forced them to let their buildings, fences and machinery deteriorate, made them rob their soil of its God-given fertility, deprived their sons and daughters of a decent opportunity on the farm. To those days, I trust, the organized power of the nation has put an end forever...
...sorry business to rob the world in this way of its legends. And the Vagabond wonders what is gained when somebody opens an ancient tomb or explores a forbidden sanctuary or wrecks a harmless illusion only to say: "Nothing is there...
...tracing the activities of a moppet named Tommy (Billy Halop) and his juvenile gang. There is nothing more seriously the matter with Tommy than that he has lice in his hair, which his loyal sister attempts to remove with a can of kerosene. But environment leads him to rob a rich boy, stab the boy's father and start on his way to the reform school and high crime. There, as suddenly as he begins his narrative, Playwright Kingsley stops...