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...satisfaction it was proved that Major Kuga on Feb. 20 led a gallant assault on the no less gallant Chinese 19th Route Army, advancing with such vigor that his small Japanese detachment found itself presently engulfed by Chinese and was soon almost wiped out. Major Kuga, knocked senseless by the explosion of a hand grenade, did not even know his enemies had captured him until he woke up in a Chinese hospital. The Japanese courtmartial, when these facts had been established, complimented Major Kuga and dismissed him with all honor-but his hero's brain throbbed with the madding...
...what about Prohibition? [Here Mr. Smith took an ostentatious stoup of water while his audience whooped.] null actually spending $100,000,000 a year in a senseless, useless, fruitier attempt to enforce an unenforceable statute. Who says that? Why. the Wickersham Commission! [Loud laughter.] Think of the billions...
...Scouts, urged Scouts everywhere to destroy, as senseless and dangerous, any "chain letter" they may receive. Said he: "Letters I have received have threatened me with all sorts of disasters if I disobeyed their instructions. I have destroyed scores of them in my life but the disasters have never come...
...Princeton Alumni Weekly, speaking of the great majority of college students, says that they are "cheerful and happy," and that, "unlike their elders, they do not everlastingly talk about the depression." They hope that "things will go back"; but whatever happens, they are not going back to the senseless way in which many of them lived in prosperous days. It cannot be doubted that this is to be a wholesome period for the colleges and universities, when the higher purposes of education will have an opportunity to become dominant in the lives of the students. The lavish, rockless spender...
Every game has its own ethics. In baseball, it is permissible to rattle a pitcher by making a noise; but a golfer who shouts when his opponent is putting is a boorish cheat. In football, it is ethical to render an adversary senseless by hard tackling; it would be easy but unfair to win a rubber of bridge in the same way. A question of ethics in sport was internationally discussed last week after the conclusion of the Harmsworth Cup (motor boat) races in Detroit...