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...plane. Dixie proudly read Rear Admiral Frederick Sherman's "well done" over the loudspeaker, and congratulated his crew for its safety record. About that time a sailor who had dozed off on the struts under the No. 2 elevator fell overboard. Angry Dixie flushed brick-red at the blot on the Ti's record. When a destroyer picked up the sailor and returned him, Dixie got on the loud speaker again: "If anyone wants to see that smart young fellow, you can find him in the brig on bread and water." But Dixie softened...
Perplexed and questioning, a sad Ibis fluttered back and forth along the Bow Street clothing-store annex with quizzical eye and mournful heart. "Boola, boola," the Blot sobbed; "no more Dutch white lead tiles for sale, but we're expecting a supply of Gothic arches from New Haven shortly...
...insincere Blot was a taunting the Jester, a new Jester without the tradition worship of the old masters. Light dawned in Ibis intellect: unwitting Lampy had bestowed the Eli sky-blue tint to creaking portals that shrieked their protest in hues of yellow. The bird groaned and returned to frustrated vigil...
...Whose only regimental blot is their surrender at Yorktown...
This was not the fault of the war, although this was the blackest of weeks for the enemy on both sides of the world. The steady flow of huge headlines-Cherbourg, Saipan, Vitebsk-could neither blot the Republican convention off the front pages nor out of Americans' minds...