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"To Teach Those Guys. . . ." His mother has spent 40 of her 70 years in Canada, speaks little English, has few friends. She is homesick. He and his wife will go with her to Japan. There, he avers: "I'm going to teach those guys some democracy. I don'...
The ideal climate, avers Nature, would have a winter mean temperature not below freezing and a summer so cool that a lightly clothed man could walk four miles an hour in sunlight without sweating. The best climate in the world is that of New Zealand. Pretty good is the area...
Bunt Bungled. With the definitions are given the earliest recorded usage, plus examples, sometimes as recent as 1925. Sources have included books, newspapers, magazines, advertising materials, circus posters - but not the sandlots, saloons or ball parks. That the research was some what cloistered is evident when the DAE defines to...
Mr. Ickes' Foreign Operations Committee avers that private enterprise is the better means to insure U.S. participation in world oil because "private enterprise can operate with a minimum of political complications." Mr. Ickes maintains just as stoutly that no foreign nation would dare to toy with a U.S. Government...
Meyer Davis is deferential to dowagers. Unlike Mr. Whiteman, he is not averse to bringing his men in at the tradesmen's entrance. He is wise about playing people's favorite numbers, keeps his men up on some 500 pieces, including old ballads and college songs as well as dance tunes. Meyer Davis hires only strong men who can play all night without intermissions between numbers. He grosses more than $4,000,000 a year. Asked how he does it, he avers with some accuracy: "Because I am the best in the business...