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...bravos are sometimes paid, and sometimes just appoint themselves, to "support" respective candidates for office. During political off-seasons they keep in training by provoking purely private, local brawls, but let a close election loom and they emerge in force to strut around bars, clank their spurs haughtily and utter elegant insults at other candidates' pistoleros. Some pistoleros have strong political ideals. A lot of them get their bravado from tequila...
Mary sat in the sun parlor of her home last week and wrote a note to the world. "My four kidnappers are probably the only people on earth who don't consider me an utter fool. You have your death penalty now - so - please give them a chance." Then she raised an automatic pistol to her head and pulled the trigger...
...reciprocated with utter frankness."You have a very poor opinion of the German people," said a Foreign Office official to him.† Answered Mr. Villard: "I have a far higher opinion of the German people than your government has. ... I am willing to believe that they can be trusted with the truth, and your government is not." When Dr. Karl Hermann Frank, Secretary of State in Bohemia-Moravia, told him that every German was behind Führer Adolf Hitler, Mr. Villard promptly disagreed, said he had met many anti-Nazi Germans...
...foreign agencies . . . shout themselves hoarse that Finnish troops broke through the front in all directions, crossed the Soviet frontier and wage operations on U. S. S. R. territory. This is an utter lie. ... In reality, Finnish troops have never reached Soviet frontiers in any direction. As a matter of fact they have hardly set themselves to such a task." (True, except for small raiding parties...
...price of a stamp. Later it dared dry little whispers on the cause and treatment of venereal disease. Three and a half years ago, when dynamic Thomas Parran was appointed Surgeon-General, he promptly starched up the publicity of the Public Health Service, egged on press and radio to utter the unutterable words "syphilis" and "gonorrhea...