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...driving from Pensacola to Jacksonville, Fla. when dusk halted me in the lovely old town of Madison. Going to the old red brick hotel, I was shown to a nicely furnished room with private bath. Being hungry, I hurried down to supper. The old colored waiter shuffled to my table and I asked him what was cooking. "Roast beef, baked ham, fried chicken and T-bone steak," he replied. I ordered the steak . . . and he shuffled out. Presently he set before me tomato juice and avocado salad. This was followed by the steak with French-fried potatoes, Golden Bantam corn...
...bomber's mighty wheels ("I'm afraid we shall have to leave building the new wing until after the war"). Emett's capacity to embroider a theme with variations applies not only to railways but also to such other redoubtable English features as ear trumpets, bath chairs, lantern-slide lectures, and fair weather performances of A Midsummer Night's Dream on the vicarage lawn...
Flash! Bizmark had a bath last Sunday. Bill Brown has brand new shoes. That's all the news I could get out of Company IV. Won't nobody help...
Actually, Baruch now puts in few 16-hour days. Always fond of sleep, he likes better than ever to go to bed early, has an air-conditioning unit in his bedroom to help him drop off. When he has trouble going to sleep he takes a bath, as cold as he can stand it. In the mornings, he some times lolls in striped pajamas and red bathrobe as late...
...Blimpish superiors that the younger generation is fed up with playing old-fashioned war games. The young officer's orders are to begin the war at midnight, but he and his men start at 6 p.m., rush to London and capture the Home Guard General in a Turkish bath. The young officer looks down on the towel wrapped about Blimp's droopy paunch and says: "Well, all I can say, Sir, is that when Napoleon said an army marches on its stomach. . . ." From his full, majestic, nude height Blimp replies: "Let me tell you that in 40 years...