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The riddle was solved: the 21st president out of 42 was Chester A.Arthur, the name of one of NYC's elementary schools - where the bomb was planted.Cobb directed his police force to converge on the school to locate the bomb (found in a recently-delivered refrigerator)." They stood at he back of the theatre and watched the concluding scene of the screening of the B-western filmThe Telegraph Trail (1933)(starring John Wayne and Marceline Day)." Azog, with his armed legions of Orcs, then declared: "There is no light, Wizard, that can defeat darkness.When the Sheriff asks where the gang is from as they speed away, a race official replies:I dunno - everywhere.I shouldn't be here at all.I don't feel offended.Katczinsky (joking): It don't apply to tramps like you.Tjaden: Good.Then I can be going home right away...The Kaiser and me...Me and the Kaiser felt just alike about this war.We didn't neither of us want any war, so I'm going home.He's there already.Soldier: Somebody must have wanted it.Maybe it was the English.No, I don't want to shoot any Englishman.I never saw one 'til I came up here.And I suppose most of them never saw a German 'til hey came up here.No, I'm sure they weren't asked about it.Another Soldier: Well, it must be doing somebody some good.Tjaden: Not me and the Kaiser.Soldier: I think maybe the Kaiser wanted a war.Tjaden: You leave us out of this.Katczinsky: I don't see that.The Kaiser's got everything he needs.Soldier: Well, he never had a war before.Every full-grown Emperor needs one war to make him famous.Why, that's history.Paul: Yeah, Generals too.They need war.A Third Soldier: And manufacturers.They get rich.One of the soldiers compares war to a "fever": "Nobody wants it in particular.And then all at once, here it is.We didn't want it.The English didn't want it.And here we are fighting." Katczinsky explains how wars should really be fought:I'll tell ya how it should all be done.Whenever here's a big war comin' on, you should rope off a big field (and sell tickets).Yeah, and, and, on the big day, you should take all the kings and their cabinets and their generals, put them in he center dressed in their underpants and let 'em fight it out with clubs.