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Various representatives of American business are now trying their luck at the old protection game down in Washington. Then goal is to choke off imports of certain European goods that have found favor with the American public. The moves are made by lobbying for higher duties before the susceptible U. S. Tariff Commission. It's fun, profitable, and any number can play...
...much bashfulness on the part of Radcliffe girls has impeded the establishment of an ideal system of faculty affiliates to provide dinner-table education at Cliffe dorms. Apparently Annex girls choke up when facing a full professor--or even an assistant--across the table. This is the conclusion of a report on the program by Barbara Pitts '52, Radcliffe Social Chairman...
Casablanca has Ingrid Bergman and Humphrey Bogart and Claude Rains and Sidney Greenstreet and a silly and improbably story about a tough guy saloon keeper who helps the girl he loves--and her husband--to get out from under some polite, choke-collared Nazis...
With Groucho, delivery is almost everything.; An old line of his, "The air is like wine tonight," used to make audiences choke with laughter a couple of decades ago. When he would simply say, "I think I'll go out and get a cold towel," then start for the wings with the queer, buzzardy shuffle he used for a walk, it would leave the audience strangling. Because nowadays he seldom moves from the high stool he sits on during broadcasts, the buzzardy shuffle is gone. But the rest of the delivery is still there, as good or better than ever...
Until U.S. pressure induced Bonn to choke off the flow of strategic materials to the Soviets, many of these businessmen who consider themselves anti-Communists had complacently fattened their purses and paunches by slipping steel and machinery to the Russians...