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Blustered Senator Long: "Tell that fellow to go slap damn to hell. If he had any sense, which of course he hasn't, or he wouldn't be in the Cabinet, he would praise this legislation. We are doing the United States Government a compliment when we let them do business with...
Beneath Manhattan's East River, Diver John Forward was groping over the hulk of the S. S. Lexington which sank last January (TIME, Jan. 14) when a human hand languidly slapped him across the face of his helmet. It was the hand of a man whose feet had been caught under a packing case. The hand continued to slap Diver Forward until he had worked the body loose, sent it to the surface...
...immediate concern not only to every liberty loving Harvard student but also to every mother and father in the United States. The proposed bill intends that the Misses Dionne shall not be commercialized by the money grubbing vaudeville entrepreneurs of New York and Chicago. It is a direct national slap at the great acquisitive qualities which have maintained the Yankee at the top of the financial heap, and an insult to that maternal instinct which flames inherent in the breasts of all true Americans...
...When I am particularly angry with an ex-cannibal or his children, I call them such. It is worse than a slap in the face. They would rather eat bully beef than human flesh because there is more salt in it. I don't think they would eat white men at all, as they are afraid of a new diet. Cannibals usually are weaklings. There will be no cannibalism among the Solomon Islands in ten years, when civilization contacts the back country...
Where, we rise to enquire, and on what grounds should we feel disheartened? Our slap in the face comes from our general lack of desire to browbeat intellectually our dates. We're proud of our athletic prowess, but we don't wear our Phi Beta Kappa Keys to dazzle our girl friends...