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...dream: the jockeys in the Melbourne Cup race were wearing black armbands, and leading the pack down the stretch was his own horse, a rank outsider named Nimblefoot. When Craig told about his dream, everybody got a good laugh; one bookmaker offered him odds of ?1,000 to a cigar. But it meant nothing to Owner Craig when Nimblefoot, his jockey wearing a black armband, won the big race. Owner Craig had died the day before...
...They have called us names rais, grafters, politicians in their literature," he said. "If there is one thing I want to make clear, it is that I am not, nor ever was a politician," he continued. This defense brought applause, muffled somewhat by the cigar smoke...
...between questions. He encourages them to tell their life stories, and as they talk, he festoons the impromptu dialogue with strings of rapid-fire gags, or simply guides his victims into verbal traps and lets them writhe. "Women are the best ones on this program," says Marx, carefully flicking cigar ashes on his grey slacks. "They talk a lot. And the older women talk more than the younger ones. They make great contestants, but I'd hate to be married to one of them...
Alabaster & Antipathy. Never married, he was always in love. When he first met the tiny, cigar-smoking and betrousered George Sand sulking at a soiree, he exclaimed, "What an antipathetic person ... Is it really a woman? I am inclined to doubt it." He claimed she was his mistress for less than a year, but he lived with her and depended on her care and solicitude for almost the rest of his life. When her children finally forced them apart, he was lost without...
With the University police blanketing the Yard with cigar-chewing operatives and a pair of uniformed officers hustling the disappointed crowd from Cronin's promptly at the stroke of twelve, Harvard Square and nothing but peace and quiet from the Dartmouth invaders last night...