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Housebroken. In Buffalo, Mr. & Mrs. Lawrence Delaney returned from a party, found a stranger asleep in their bed, noted that the intruder had also used Mr. Delaney's toothbrush and hair tonic...
After the soldiers came the civilians. They picked their way through ruins and roadblocks, in search of food ,and firewood. In the first days of peace, soup kitchens served 320,000 meals to hungry Athenians. Against the wall of a hotel an old man leaned as though asleep. He had been dead five days...
Much has taken place in the privatizes of our dear company since we last appeared in print. The Christmas leave was spent profitably (either in action or just comfortably asleep all day), New Year's Eve was written off as a gross loss, but the final net profit for the period won't be determined until the results of those fateful mid-terms are publicized on or about 15 January. As Herman Homer Cone says, "It isn't the marks, it's the worry and uncertainty that slays...
Next morning, Miss Berry was asleep in the "Paulette Goddard Room," named for Chaplin's third wife. When Chaplin came in, she said, he promised to pay her a regular $25 a week and she gave up the gun. On the stand, it suddenly occurred to Miss Berry that "telling a story like this" was "very embarrassing." The Court urged her to go right on. Well, she and Chaplin had both undressed...
...first everything was wild confusion. Germans suddenly appeared over the crest of hills and shot up towns. They overran rear-area supply points, pounced upon U.S. artillerymen before they could get to their guns. Germans surrounded a field of artillery-spotting planes, whose pilots were fast asleep. U.S. divisional generals found their command posts the centers of battles, their defenders hastily armed cooks, clerks, medics, runners. Trucks filled with German soldiers dashed through areas where rear-echelon G.I.s went about their routine tasks...