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...superman known as simply White, who knew everybody, went everywhere, held every imaginable opinion. When I discuss household problems with Maria, the maid, I am again up against this paragon Senhor White. This fabulous journalist, it appears, liked many fruits for breakfast, no fruits and no eggs, eggs with bacon and four eggs...
Jones and Maria have drawn up a chart for easy reference, using Maria's designations: White the married, who liked lamb and pork, but no shrimp; White the father of Cricket (Frank White III), who liked fruits, eggs, bacon and pastries; and White the criança (youngster), who refused milk and potatoes for fear of becoming White the fat. Now, when the name of Senhor White comes up, Maria goes to the kitchen, consults the chart and points out which one she means...
Probation soon loomed its ugly head and the class mourned the loss of 45 jovial companions who departed, as a result of their mid-year showing. Dean Bacon spiked rumors that half the class was on probation. Coach Shaw ominously warned that "the success or failure of the freshman crew depends upon the men on probation." The Administrative Board alleviated the tension by announcing that that only three and a half C's were required to get off probation...
...guests were ten representatives of the A.F.L. building and construction trades, and while Harriman walked them across the red dining-room carpet past the French panels, a flying wedge of television cameramen, newsmen and campaign assistants moved in too. They recorded the scene as the labor men chomped their bacon & eggs and listened while Harriman scored the "punitive" Taft-Hartley Act and promised 100% support to the New & Fair Deals...
...Index (1948) lists 4,126 titles-all of them books banned since 1600. Many of the names it includes must have popped up on Father Burke's old University of Illinois reading lists. Among them: Voltaire, Kant, Montesquieu, Descartes, Spinoza, Anatole France, Emile Zola, John Stuart Mill, Francis Bacon, Hugo Grotius, Gustave Flaubert, Maurice Maeterlinck...