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Late last month Secretary of Commerce Sinclair Weeks took a wide sweep with his new broom and dismissed Dr. Allen...
When in good spirits, as nephew Budu tells it, Stalin ribs the comrades unmercifully. "Viatcheslav Mikhailovitch," he yelled at Molotov during one gorodki game, "you hold the stick like an old woman with a broom!" Sputtered Molotov: "I'd like to see you try to play gorodki with glasses on!" Watching Budenny, the handle-bar-mustached old cavalryman, swig vodka at dinner, Stalin joshed: "Our Marshal goes through the vodka like Suvarov.* Too bad he doesn't resemble Suvarov in other ways...
...long ago, but the horrified Republicans could not forget it. Throughout the campaign they hollered self-righteously, and insisted that even office holidays were violating the same law. After No members 4 indignation teased and the winners proclaimed the staff of The Big Sweep. But only last week the broom came to a half; there was a dusty corner that could not go because if it did, then Eisen-hower's Secretary of Defense would go along with...
...always in such stories, the agent of law & order, the unhappy cop or bumbling sheriff, who bit the most dust. Governor after governor struggled to bring the vast new territory into a lawful state; each arrived with a new broom under his arm and left trailing it behind him. Australia's yellow press and its best and gayest ballads flourished in the sort of soil that gave Jesse James...
...paragon of service true, a goddess with a broom...