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...Author Edward (Dere Mable) Streeter's sixth book in a writing career that he manages to combine with banking. Since 1931, he has been a vice president at Manhattan's Fifth Avenue Bank...
...Banks, and how he became a remnant of his former self during the months just before his daughter's marriage, is the subject of the newest book by Edward Streeter, Manhattan banker and author of such occasional studies of U.S. types as Dere Mable (the World War I doughboy) and Daily Except Sundays (the harassed commuter). Father is one of the best of the Streeter studies: a simple-sentence, large-print piece of summer reading, as easy to absorb as sunshine...
Then Churchill took over. "Now," said Mose, "we gwine win. Chickcharneys got no grudge dere." And with Chamberlain's abandoned railroad track melted down and sent to Britain for scrap, Mose's prediction proved entirely correct...
...Yorkshireman, whose mother was a French Tahitian and whose English was a splendid massacre. Joe once referred to the "United Steaks Conscience, Washington, Disease" which, translated, turned out to be the United States Congress, Washington, D.C. Sometimes he would dream about his abandoned South Sea Eden: "No, sir, dere's no snakes, no sharks, nevaire 'ot, nevaire col'. . . . You don't have to work on de Island- jist pick fruit off de tree. . . . Same when you're hungry for girl. . . . She's laugh and go wit you. . . . An' all de girls . . . is vierge...
...insult the Copacabana's boss ("He can't even spell da name!"). He may insult the menu ("Dere goes a load of ice with three olives. Twelve-fifty for dat load. Somebody's got to pay for da cocktail room!"). He may insult labor when a busboy knocks over a chair ("He's gotta pick it up. No one else can touch it. Union!"). He may challenge the whole situation when a microphone is lowered toward his expectant and famous nose ("Go ahead! Touch da nose! Just once! I'll sue da jernt for every...