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...Washington private press conference in May Churchill said: "Of this you may be sure, we shall continue to operate on that donkey at both ends-with a stick as well as with a carrot...
...Delhi conference Jinnah had described Britain's Secretary of State for India, Leopold S. Amery, and Viceroy Lord Linlithgow as "pukka diehards still dangling the carrot of unity before donkey-like India." Jinnah had suggested that the country "unite and drive the British out," and asked Gandhi to write him a letter. The Raj, Jinnah said, would not dare to stop such a message. The Raj did dare. Jinnah commented: "The letter of Mr. Gandhi can only be construed as a move on his part to embroil the Moslem League in a clash with the British...
Heart-faced, carrot-topped Edna Margaret Cox (Stripteaser Margie Hart, "The Poor Man's Garbo") disclosed that since last July 4 she had been married to Army Lieut. Seaman Jacobs, her express agent. Now trouping in the play Cry Havoc, Ecdysiast Edna explained why she had stopped stripping: "It just isn't right for a married woman to do that kind of work...
...gardeners, this was the best time of year. They sent the children to bed early, switched off the radio, plugged the telephone bell and settled down for an evening with their dreams. They opened the new seed catalogues with trembling fingers, drank in the intoxicating colors of beet and carrot, rolled the poetry over on their tongues. While winter winds whistled outside, they luxuriated in a gentle world where all tomatoes grow to unblemished perfection, where eight-inch cucumbers are midgets, where every brussels sprout is a sonnet and bugs are never seen...
...that would make a mummy drool: ". . . surpasses all others in quality, tenderness, succulence and flavor. . . . The pods are 4½ to 5 inches long, thick, round in cross section, smooth, deep dark green in color, curving slightly, with long and distinctively curved tips. . . ." Peter Henderson & Co. had a Coreless Carrot whose "beautiful appearance alone wins favor for it wherever grown. ... Its coreless, rich red-orange flesh possesses a sweet, melting tenderness that appeals even to those who otherwise are not fond of carrots...