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...Brother Benito announced the incorporation of the Fascist Militia as an "independent unit" in the Italian Army, declaring at a Fascist rally in Rome: "I am sure the Fascist legions fully deserve this honor. . . . They must become our shock troops-daggers between teeth, grenades in hand and supreme contempt of danger at heart." Those who thought this sounded like the incorporation of a band of autonomous brigands in the Italian army were not reassured when Il Duce concluded...
...with somewhat of a shock that one learns, in the annual report of the Alumni Appointment Office, that there are at least 2259 unemployed or dissatisfied-with-their-present-position Harvard graduates...
INTERFERENCE-Velvety London dialog muffles the shock of murder...
January 15 "gas Poisoning, Electric Shock and Drowning". Dr. C. K. Drinker...
...first clean-shaven Cabinet in U. S. history, frowned quizzically and held something in his hands behind Attorney General Sargent's head. Secretary Curtis Dwight Wilbur (Navy) let his long arms hang at his sides and peered forth from beneath the heaviest dark eyebrows and highest shock of hair in the Cabinet, through the only pair of spectacles (rimless) in the picture...