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Free Parking. Throughout Sept. 3, 4 and 5, German columns following behind the original columns and unaware of the trap that had been sprung continued to bump into our lines around Mons. An American MP directing traffic during the night discovered that he had just motioned a Mark V tank into the assembly area and the German tank had obediently followed his hand signal. Another civilian car loaded with German officers blithely rode into the middle of an American tank column before it was discovered by an officer in a jeep and shot...
...road a mile-long column of German vehicles traveling bumper to bump er was caught by Allied attack planes, which smashed or burned nearly every one. In Washington, Secretary Stimson declared that the amount of wrecked or abandoned German transport in some places was actually hampering Allied prog ress. Mr. Stimson added with a twinkle in his eye that this was a kind of delay "to which our ground forces could be easily reconciled...
Suddenly, all the hundreds of Wallace placards had vanished. The three huge white Wallace balloons, which had hung over the convention all day, were let go; they floated swiftly to the dim rafters overhead, there to bump softly above the smoke, the lights, and the cheers...
...From ghoulies and ghosties, long-leggity beasties, and things that go bump in the night, good Lord, deliver...
...your heart goes bumpity-bump...