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Dirksen's father, like most folks in those parts, was a Republican through and through. He proved it by naming his first-born son Benjamin Harrison; when his wife gave him twins, he seconded the motion by naming them Everett McKinley and Thomas Reed (after the then Speaker of...
To prove this theory, they put toads in cages and offered them live dragonflies, bumblebees and robber flies. Inexperienced toads accepted all three alike, but toads that grabbed the bees got stung. Once stung, they would eat neither bumblebees nor robber flies, though the flies, in spite of their appearance...
In the back room of a suite in a Park Avenue office building stands a figure that looks just like Jacqueline Kennedy. More precisely, it looks like Jackie only in the sense that whatever fits the figure also fits the wife of the President of the U.S. It is Jackie...
"'But listen,' I said in an urgent undertone, trying not to alarm the rest of the group. 'What prevents them from, say, setting fire to this tree and smoking us out like a nest of bees?'
Domesticity sets in. A cave is found and furnished, and the men go out to hunt. Pretty soon they find something that pretty well fills the pot-a chicken 20 ft. tall. But next day they have trouble with bugs-bees as big as rhinos. And that same afternoon the...