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...Communist and a true believer in Internationalism, do not speak with the the intention of offending but with the intention of giving a shock to your mentality. I, for one, will not yield to terrorism. I am going to carry subversive propaganda, revolutionary propaganda, Communist propaganda, international propaganda, with the assistance of the Russians and the Chinese and the Germans and the British...
...found her wandering through the streets of Weehawken, N. J., weeping with the fierce, cloudly bitterness of one deranged by shock. He spoke gently to her. She did not know where she was going. She did not know where she had come from. That was why she was crying. Ho, but the officer knew what this meant! It was some disease they had when they talked like that; he had read about it in the papers many's the time; magnesia was the name of it, or rhodesia, or one of them. He took her to the North Hudson hospital...
...member of the American Red Cross Life Saving Corps, and one of its Examiners, I hasten to set your writer on the right path. We teach that the true cause of death by drowning, asphyxiation (smoke or gas), or electric shock is paralysis of the diaphragm. A man requires oxygen, of which the air contains 20%, and he must eliminate carbon dioxide gas, the reaction of which itself will paralyze or inhibit his diaphragm...
...Pistoja amid a bombardment of sibilant Italian hisses. In the open country two automobiles barred the road. The Amendola car stopped, instantly the party was set upon by about 15 stalwart Fascisti and soundly clubbed. At Pistoja, a few minutes later, the Deputy was found to be suffering from shock, numerous contusions and some nasty cuts. Nothing dangerous developed and he was shipped back to his home in Rome...
STORIES OF OLD IRELAND AND MYSELF-Sir William Orpen, R. A.-Holt ($3.50). ". . . In Paris I rushed to the Louvre. When I entered the Salle Carrée, there before me was the Mona Lisa. That was a shock. I not only did not like it, I hated it. It made me feel sick. . . . I rushed out. . . . I went back. . . . I was still horrified at thinking her so horrible. The slimy paint, like that of the Yiddish School of the present day! I listened to what people were saying. . . . 'That expression!' . . . 'Leonardo has here expressed womanhood...