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...right; stand with him while he is right and part with him when he goes wrong. With that motto as his back drop, Hiram Warren Johnson slicked his parted white hair and posed for photographers. Said he: "I am, as my grandmother used to say, as happy as a clam at high tide." The happy clam had just been triple-nominated for his fifth term...
...improvement in mankind's table manners. Early in 1,000,000 B. C. Cave Boy is still tearing off hunks of roast triceratops, scrambling up a high rock to squat and gnaw. By 999,999 B. C. Cave Girl has him eating out of a clam shell. She is less successful with the shoals of hungry reptiles which swarm into the picture from practically every geologic epoch, all of whom share a taste for cave folk...
...Francisco rotund Alexander Woollcott, playing in The Man Who Came to Dinner, dined with friends, on snails with French dressing, rice balls, bisque of clam, baby squid with sauce a la Genoise, saddle of lamb, fondue of truffles, cress salad. Result: he got a heart attack, was put to bed and the show had to close...
...well look forward to salvage coups like its saving of 6,000,000 feet of lumber from Duluth grain elevators. To keep up with their destruction, the Roses need 200 administrative employes, sometimes employ as much as $100,000 worth of equipment on a single job, including bulldozers, clam shell buckets, a two-ton steel weight swung from a boom to batter walls and floors. But peacetime wrecking technology is not subject to much change...
...wished to send a girl a birthday wire, poor clam, I'd use a Western Union predigested tele gram-That'll show you what I am: Just a boob, a Simple Sam, But I have my one rebellion, and I stick to it, by damn-For in one thing, I insist, I'm a misbehaviorist, As heroic as they were at Valley Forge: With amazement hear me speak My accomplishment unique, I NEVER CALLED A PULLMAN PORTER GEORGE. If you want the other stanzas, you can find them in the files of the SRI.. Will...