Word: crepe
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...agency was gasping its dying breath this summer, the shop contained a huge sign proclaiming: "OPA Regulations are still observed in this store--Cahaly." Now, even as Paul porter cleans out his Washington desk and prepares to transfer the bureau to the textbooks, the sign still remains amid the crepe-paper decor of a dusty window display...
...congressional elections in November. But the air was heavy with gloom. National Chairman Bob Hannegan and his able young assistant Gael Sullivan got on the telephone as soon as the dust had cleared. They called many a local Party bigwig. Some were ready to hang out the crepe right away, but many others thought they had suffered nothing worse than sprains and minor dislocations...
Later, when a cowpoke quaffed a "prairie pickup" ("straight formaldehyde with a black widder spider ridin' the olive"), his crepe whiskers fell off. Ad-libbed Actor Welles: "Mighty pow'ful stuff, that likker. Burns the whiskers right off'n a man's face...
Come out of your dismal, crepe-shrouded offices and stop wringing your verbal hands in despair. For there's a bright new world ahead...
...Michael Venning (under whose signature three of her 15 books have been written) and Daphne Saunders (who has signed one of the 15). Michael Venning's biography has been called for by Who's Who and (for a gag) she has posed for his picture wearing a crepe beard, and her husband's coat...