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...Office of Government Reports (the frequent reference to this as OGRE is just a typographical error), press-agent the innumerable Press Agents of the Individual Departments (often called the PAIDS) and will under no circumstances do anything whatever that anybody else is doing already. . . . When the Office of Utter Confusion and Hysteria (to be referred to as OUCH) has finally been created, then the capstone will have been set upon the pyramid and we can all die happy, strangled in the very best red tape...
...statements by certain Army men that the majority of men want to remain in the Army "for the duration" exhibit either an utter disregard for truth, or abysmal ignorance. Ninety percent of the men, at least, desire to go home...
...have watched it more nervously than they watched the 1941 Tax Bill, just sent in by the Ways & Means Committee. But under the gag rule to bar amendments from the floor (which Republicans planned to fight as usual, expecting as usual to lose) they could only wring their hands, utter a few pained monosyllables, then vote on the bill. They were expected to do their duty by passing it this week...
Sirs: May I have your permission to utter a protest against the article on Mount Athos which was published in your issue of April...
...modeled from them his ambitious works. He lined a corridor with bas-reliefs of Pain, Destiny, Love, Will Power, Desire, the faces of which all came from death masks. Sculptor Chiapasco's favorites were the models of the ecstatic features of a Japanese who had committed harakiri, the utter despair on the face of a woman murdered by her husband, the exquisite torso of a young girl run over by an omnibus on a Buenos Aires street...