Word: bit
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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France must not die-for what would your readers write to you about if not"to predict the fall of France? Of course, there's always England-she's acting a bit giddy these days, don't you think...
...most remarkable man. Looking at this picture, I think I can see a little of the essence of the man, but after reading the story, I have the feeling that your writer is talking about someone else part of the time . . . The fellow you describe sounds a bit more like a character out of Mickey Spillane's "masterpieces." Somewhere beneath the literary imagination of your writer and above the "brogues gleaming richly on the broadloom" must exist a very competent individual composed of an uncommon amount of just plain Bill...
...meals in the kitchen), the town elders glance up from their cards and shrug: "It's only Pierrot." But his organization men, waiting in the backroom, are excited and cordial, report happily of hundreds of new dues-paying members since election, listen while Poujade regales them with a bit of gossip from the big city and a lot of Poujade propaganda...
Love Rides the Rails to intoxication in a delightful bit of absurdity which well meets Hasty Pudding standards. At the Clubhouse...
...year history, but few could have been more riotous and spontaneous than the latest production. Despite an uncertain start earlier this year, when no one seemed sure whether or not there would be a show at all, the Pudding has put together a fresh and easy bit of patter which is never dull. For the good-natured audience last night, which displayed varying degrees of sobriety, the show...