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...hitting the nail with unaccustomed vigor. "But Bertie, I mean to say, what is one to make of the nauseating news that Swedish journalist fellow just dished up, that Plum has signed on the jolly old dotted with a Nazi film company for two pictures, and that that frightful cad Hitler is giving him special 'courtesy marks' for good behavior? Well, what I mean to say is-fun's fun, but dash it all -." The Hon. Freddie collapsed into bewildered silence...
Boomed James Aloysius Farley, another O'Dwyer backer: "Never have we been so degraded. ... A man . . . last night showed himself in his true colors, as a cad...
...keep their happy little home inviolate against all comers attracted like bees to honey-chile Anna. Father-in-law Charles Winneger maintains a respectful neutrality, and so long as his sponging concession is assured he doesn't care much who the victimized son-in-law is. Gilbert Roland (the cad) was still in the running when we left, but our bets are on Colman...
...Gateshead, an accountant and ardent bowler, who drinks only water and dry ginger ale. Shouted he: "All things that are sweet and reasonable and Christian are being more and more jeered at and flouted. . . . We know that art and literature have been befouled. ... In literature every man is a cad and every woman a vamp. . . . We have the devotees of St. Vitus' dance called Jazz . . . volplaning down the descending scale. You hear crooners breaking their hearts every night-if anybody broke their necks I should not be sorry. . . . London is the playground of the idle rich. ... All this technique...
While debate on the Lend-Lease Bill rolled on last week, many a U. S. citizen raised shrill anti-war cries. Speaking for the leftist majority of the American Youth Congress, Executive Secretary Joseph Cad-den declared: "America's youth have repudiated every attempt on the part of the Administration and its lackeys to put over this war program...