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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...session and elect your representatives now." But Murphy shouted him down. There'd be no election, he cried, until tomorrow, "and we'll let the ship lie there tonight." The pimply-faced steward looked at the tall ship and cried gleefully: "Well, chum, you've 'ad it." The men laughed...
...like the old lady who, put on a diet, was discovered by her doctor eating a steak-&-kidney pudding. 'Yes, doctor,' she said, 'I've 'ad me diet; now I'm 'aving me dinner...
...plagiarist," or a doctor a "quack" is usually libelous. But it may surprise them to learn that praising a doctor may be libelous. In Louisiana, a doctor collected damages after the New Orleans Picayune praised an operation he had performed. His claim: the story was, in effect, an ad for him; medical ethics prohibit advertising; his medical standing was therefore damaged...
...mortgaged, see. An' I can't afford to pay no more on it." "How much do you owe?" asked Cripps. "?400." "Well, suppose I gave you ?500?" Old Joe jumped at the chance, but his face fell when he heard Cripps's conditions. For Cripps added that he would pay Joe the extra ?100 at the rate of ?1 a week. " 'E knew," explained a villager, "Old Joe would only blue the lot if 'e 'ad it all at once-so 'e rations 'im. Well...
...colonel was a radio writer in 1930 when he and Budd Hulick, a studio announcer at Buffalo's WGR, were suddenly called on to ad-lib a desperate 15 minutes of silliness on the air. Before the show was over, the studio switchboard was jammed with calls from entranced listeners, and Stoopnagle & Budd were a top team in radio for the next eight years. In 1938 the partners went their separate ways,* and the vogue for Stoop's simpleton style of comedy vanished...