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...fighting with the machete, instead of the modern warfare that had astounded South America around Munoz. Only an occasional bombing plane tried to find a Paraguayan in the bog. In the close wet heat, under clouds of hard-biting ihenni flies, the men fought in spasms, stopped to pant, slap and rest. Against Bolivia's German management, Paraguayans had French-trained Jose Estigarribia. Retreating, they left cemeteries on whose fast-rotting headboards were names of Russian officers. General Kundt's objective was to cut off Fort Nanawa; the Paraguayans' to stop him at Nanawa's outlying...
...another. Several of the articles in the series on concentration seem ignorant of their proper role. They endeavor to hand on the freshman a representation of the fare which the University has to offer, and at the same time they use the sheaf handed them by the administration to slap one or another department. The CRIMSON'S role in this undertaking needs reorganization...
Vexed by the Senate's action, airmail contractors were not shocked. Aware that airmail is a potent means of Administration publicity and patronage, they chose to regard the Senate's action as 1) a slap at Postmaster General Brown and 2) a determination to let the incoming Administration get full credit for whatever is done about airmail in the next four years, extensions or economies...
...freight boat." Soon the safely married Gilda succumbs to their witty charms, and when the art broker-husband returns from Chicago he is told that the three will resume their private offensive against the social code. While he expostulates against the madness of this incorrigible trio they slap their thighs with mirth. The curtain falls, the play having evidently solved all but the practical difficulty of how Gilda, Leo and Otto can roll in the hay simultaneously...
Died. William ("Kid") Gleason. 67. oldtime second baseman on the famed Baltimore Orioles ("I'd let 'em slide to the bag, then kick 'em and slap the ball down on their conks"); of heart trouble; in Philadelphia. After exposure of the sale of the 1919 World Series to the Cincinnati...