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...fair in the smelly old Bowery warehouse of Louis Ruhe, Inc. (pronounced Looie Rooie), world's largest wild-animal dealer. The fair was at its best in March. Then U.S. zoo keepers, searching for animals for the spring and summer zoogoers, would stalk lions and tigers, aardvarks and aye-ayes, capybaras and caimans, tarsiers and toucans, caged in Ruhe's warehouse...
Last week, in the noisy, crowded House of Commons, miner M.P.s, collars open, hair ruffled, eyes red after two days of debate, raised their voices in the song they remembered at that hour: "Guide me ... Redeemer. . . ." Then they pushed into the "aye" lobby to vote for the nationalization of Britain's mines. They...
...sight for aye!" screamed crusty Sir James Cameron to his son, whom the old laird suspected (unjustly) of poisoning his cousin. So young Andrew Cameron packed his cowhide trunk and packed himself off to the U.S. "The twain of us," he said, with "rueful humor," to the Spanish girl he married in Santa Fe, "[are] cut off from our pasts for aye, and we maunna greet about it, but gae staunchly forward into the future taegether...
...this unprecedented undertaking, the National Labor Relations Board will have to concentrate its entire field staff and hire a few additional thousand employes. Accountants figured out that this operation, whose conclusion is obvious to anyone (i.e., a thumping "aye" vote); would cost the U.S. $300,000. The NLRB has not got that much money. Congress will have to appropriate...
...soldiers, was on a motion that "in the opinion of this House, it is not in the interests of permanent peace in Europe that the treatment of Germany by the Allies should be based on the principles of the Atlantic Charter." The decision, by a large majority: "Aye...