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Some contradictions of British policy, as voiced by British leaders, stung not only Ethiopia's Emperor but also Italy's Dictator to grave misgivings. In a fresh public warning to Britons last week Benito Mussolini, although still in private negotiation with Sir Samuel Hoare through intermediaries, declared: "Italians will organize a most desperate resistance [against sanctions] and will distinguish between friend...
...Stung, new Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin boomed, "It is not true...
...deserved it," answered 28% of the women. Desire to avenge some specific injury was indicated by 32% more. Other replies: "He was a louse" (or pig, bedbug, skunk, rat, cockroach, snake). Another: "My husband had the grace of a hippopotamus, the brain of a gnat, looked like a giraffe, stung like a wasp, had the personality of a dead salmon and he smelled like a stable full of dead horses." Another: "I heard so much about the alimony jail and I wanted to see the inside so badly that I sent my husband there so that I could visit...
...farm near Carrollton, Ga., Nathan Brown was stung by a bumblebee, ran toward his house, was bitten by a green snake, headed for town, was bitten by a bulldog, pulled into town in a bad humor...
...plotting on the part of U. S. correspondents-hints that no other French official could substantiate. And sympathy is an emotion that French Deputies find hard to sustain for more than an hour. Flandin had referred directly to his physical handicap, to the secret rage of his opponents, had stung their vanity by insisting that he alone was capable of saving the country. Furthermore he had made no answer at all to definite questions from the opposition early in the afternoon. Two weeks of financial panic had brought forth nothing more specific than a demand for emergency powers with...