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Suddenly the electric rumor of Mussolini's will stayed Fascist hands. II Duce had retained his ice-calm resolution, even while the powder burns stung him and the extent of his injury was not known. Before his wound could be dressed, he rapped out an order: "Let nothing be done which will bring reproach to our beloved Italy. I desire that the country be not alarmed. I do not want reprisals. It is my will. . . . If dangers confront us, I will face them with all equanimity. Now go home quietly without using violence...
...recess, two boys in a schoolyard begin quarreling over a nice red apple. One of them, by fair means or foul, procures it, whereupon the disgruntled lad shouts: "Ha! it's gotta woim hole. Ha! it's gotta woim hole! You got stung!" This kind of conduct is quite normal in shrill Jimmy Nine and smudgy Butch Ten?but when for the two lads you substitute a pair of famous daily newspapers, and for the red apple a valuable "feature," is such behavior decent? Is it dignified? People asked this question last week about the New York World...
...king is stung with the desire to fill out these billowing royal gauds, and do the king act in the grand manner of broad-shouldered Coeur de Lion or paunchy Henry VIII, let him read "Physical Culture" and reflect. His royal gaze will doubtless linger long over the sketch of a spindly person at the sea-shore with the distressing legend underneath: "Are You Ashamed to Appear in a Bathing Suit...
...Reds Up. Stung by the failure of their chief, the extremists rallied to the support of another measure, introduced as follows by Extremist Harry Pollitt: "We must have shop committees. . . We will prevent workers from being fired as soon as they suggest anything for the betterment of labor . . . We want it understood that Bolshevism is our object...
...Weizmann's administration from the fiery Russo-Jewish-Parisian swashbuckler, Jabotinsky, became so bitter that the Weizmann group insisted on a special rate of confidence in their leader with a view of his reelection. But two-thirds of the delegates refused to vote. Confusion spread. Dr. Weizmann stung by the ingratitude of Jewry, resigned, refused reelection. Confusion was confounded...