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...leaning on a basket into which potatoes are being gathered, and I find it difficult to keep the tears out of my eyes on account of my frost-bitten hands. Somebody who is the overseer of us all comes and gives me a slap on my frostbitten...
...movies go "Mother's Millions" is refreshing. Here is a film with a definitely serious tone, and yet it is neither a mystery story her relentlessly realistic. Also the picture is punctuated with frequent humorous occasions, yet it is divorced from the current comic tradition, either slap-stick or sophisticated...
Cartoonists often represent Labor as a hulking, slightly stupid man with great biceps and an ominous sledgehammer in his hand. Viewing the cartoon, one gets the idea that it would be incautious to tread on the man's big toes, extremely imprudent to slap him in the face. He might be sluggish and slow to anger, but if aroused his wrath could be violent. Fortnight ago U. S. Labor, the large part of it that works in steel, copper and textile mills, decidedly had its toes stepped on. After sustaining wage levels through two depressed years while dividends fell...
...hoped to defer dismission until later during the two-week convention. Back in their hotels, the delegates talked excitedly. Alert newshawks heard them describe the opening sermons as "poor taste," "party politics," and "Jesuitical cunning." Some felt that Bishop Furse's reference to companionate marriage was "a discourteous slap against Judge Lindsey in his home town...
Declared Governor Sterling of the new law: "It's got teeth in it but I might still slap on martial law if some of these [East Texas] operators get to acting up." But martial law was no idle threat with Governor Sterling. Many an East Texas producer had begged him to shut in that field by force. After he had perused the new conservation law and received legal advice, he despatched Texas guardsmen under sealed orders to the second richest oil field in the world...