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...recognized as Barbi, the local Communist leader. He also joined in the conversation. Then, seeing me standing near there, he eyed me suspiciously. I stood there with a blank look, and then after a few moments glanced at my watch as if expecting someone. I muttered a few English cuss words such as all Italians have learned. They took it for granted I couldn't understand Italian and continued their talk. Barbi said: 'The way Councilor Gallo went on about red being blood's color. Such nonsense! He knows nothing else to say. But black...
...sulphurous meeting in Washington last week, 50 of the nation's biggest mule dealers cussed in concert as only men who have mingled with mules can cuss. They mentioned, in various uncomplimentary ways, the U.S. Government, the Department of Agriculture and the Mexican Government. But they saved their real whizbangs for a fellow dealer, Kansas City's Ferd Owen. When they had worked off their wrath, they got Texas' Representative Wingate Lucas to draft an odd bill for Congress. It would prohibit export of mules except by Government permit...
...Curse. Sordid cash was responsible for London Pet Shopkeeper George Palmer's sudden interest in cussing parrots. Pubs, cafes, and even maiden ladies were demanding birds with rich vocabularies as never before, and last week Shopkeeper Palmer was offering to buy parrots on a basis of ?1 per each perfected cuss word up to 50. But only unreasoning love could account for the lepidopterological kleptomaniac who took 2,700 mounted butterflies from three Australian museums. London's Scotland Yard thinks it knows who did it but it cannot figure out the motive...
That would scarcely be a hardship for big, hell-raising Bill Moyes. He went radio-crazy during college days at Yale, has never gotten over it. His column, hardly one of the best, is easily the brashest. Because of "family readership," his prose is closely screened for cuss words, but some original and occasionally shrewd observations on U.S. radio get through. Some screenings...
Position Taken. "You know," Ed Martin once remarked, "there's never been anything colorful about me. I've just had to work like the devil." This is an accurate appraisal. The most colorful thing about him is his Army cussing. When the members of the First Presbyterian Church of Washington, Pa., wanted to make him an elder, he demurred. "I take a highball and cuss a little," he explained. They elected him anyhow. Actually he drinks very little, smokes not at all. His gravelly throat is the result of his gassing...