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...school the way the twister hit grandpa's barn. His appearance alone was enough to turn heads: he was a slim, tough-looking youth who sported a mustache, long sideburns and a goatee, wore blue jeans, a maroon jacket and a snap brim hat, and simultaneously smoked a cigar and chewed bubble...
Weedhead's First Day. On his first day he: 1) made loud, pointed remarks about the physique of the prettiest teacher and tried to date her; 2) put his feet on a desk in the school office, lit a fresh cigar and called the principal "Skinny"; 3) picked a fight with the toughest kid in school and whaled him into quivering wreckage. Garza spoke knowingly of his ability to "blow the weed" (smoke marijuana), within the week had been nicknamed "Weedhead" and was the swaggering leader of the worst element in the institution...
There is a little extra cigar money waiting in the U.S. for 85-year-old Composer Jean Sibelius. By special proclamation last week, Harry Truman declared that Finnish citizens, e.g., Jean Sibelius, who had been unable to renew their U.S. copyrights during the war (Sibelius' publishers were German), might now do so. As soon as he files the necessary papers, Composer Sibelius stands to collect the back-performance royalties which the Office of Alien Property has been holding...
...could he stand apart when it seemed that Cuba might be overlooked while other legations got a raise in status: "Great offence will be given if ... this large, rich, beautiful island, the home of the cigar, is denied." And not even the imminence of D-day could keep him from correcting Britain's Director of Military Intelligence: "Why must you write 'intensive' here? 'Intense' is the right word. You should read Fowler's Modern English Usage on the use of the two words...
...claimed that the leather had become stiff and "gelatinized." Opening the scroll would be similar to the process of unwrapping a cigar. He finally concluded that it would be feasible to unroll the parchment, although the project involved the danger that it would be harmed. Gettens could not give the Archbishop absolute assurance that the 2,000-year-old leather would not be some-what damaged in the process...