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Vacancy. Outside of his own clique of back-scratchers in Louisiana, Huey Long had few friends in public life. On the principle of de mortuis nil nisi bonum, his numerous enemies gave the Kingfish a charitable verbal sendoff. Spokesmen like General Johnson, Father Coughlin, James A. Farley and the New York Times chorused, in effect: "I didn't like anything about him, but I'm sorry he was assassinated...
News of the verbal duel last week found some 500 inflamed intellectuals the next night storming the doors for a chance to hear it. For fear of rioting, gates of the Palace of Fine Arts were at first locked. Angry crowds threatened to tear them down. Conferences ensued between police, the Ministry of Education and the principals. The gates were opened, and in swept a breathless and perspiring crowd to hear the two duelists fight over "What Constitutes Revolutionary...
Finally last week the Dictator slipped secretly out of Rome, so that he would not be followed by the more prominent correspondents whose dispatches would be considered proof that he had said what he was going to say. This was nothing less than a verbal declaration of war on Ethiopia, delivered from the top of a cannon at Salerno to troops as they were about to embark. On the way to Salerno the flying Dictator who piloted his own plane passed through an electric storm. Lightning charges collected on the wireless antennae, shocked the radio operator into a faint...
...raised over the latest McIntyre book, The Big Town, a collection of "New York Day By Day" columns. In his own "Bowling Green" column in the Saturday Review of Literature Mr. Morley ironically recalled that McIntyre had long been a Morley enthusiast. (Sample McIntyre column note: "The most perfect verbal silversmith, to my notion, is Christopher Morley.") Morley went on to say that McIntyre had been so carried away by his enthusiasm that for 15 years he consistently cribbed Morleyisms in his daily columns, now in book form. Wrote "Chris" Morley...
...Verbal Silversmith Morley thereupon tabulated 30 examples of similarities between McIntyre phrases and excerpts from his own works written several years earlier. Samples...