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...Blimey, wotta army!" exclaimed a wizened British corporal, just back from the Middle East, as he looked at bemedaled U.S. soldiers in London's streets, "Every bloomin...
...Richard Breen, the show included a skit by an unknown radio expert, who explained the mysteries of how to oscillate waves, with blackboard drawings to match. He was followed on the all-star bill by Bos'n Pen land giving a bewildered account of a baseball game in "the bloomin' yonkee stadium...
...soldiers soon discovered who Mr. Bullfinch was. "Blimey, it's Winnie," they said. "Winnie's come out into the bloomin' desert." "Hey, Winnie," shouted Private Stanley Collins, an Australian, "Have you got a spare cigar?" Winnie handed over a fragrant Hoyo de Monterrey...
...governor of world-spraddling Lever Brothers, Ltd. (Lux, Lifebuoy Soap), tell about the perplexity of efficiency experts over a certain laborer, the only worker in a factory to pull, not push, his wheelbarrow. Asked why, the laborer said: "Well, guv'nor, hi 'ates the ight of the bloomin' thing...
...barometer from 30 in. to 28 in.-lowest Captain Binks had ever seen. So rough was New York's almost landlocked harbor that mail boats could take off only 700 of the Olympic's mail load of 13,108 bags. Captain Binks called it "the worst bloomin' sea I ever saw in 35 years at Quarantine." Unconnected with Captain Binks's retirement was the accident seven months ago in which the Olympic cut the Nantucket Lightship in half, killed seven of her crew (TIME, May 28). To newshawks last week he said he "didn...