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...modest in his self-devotion," wrote Marie in her secret notebook. When her husband discovered the notebook he was furious. "A bad wife is to her husband as rottenness to his bones," he roared. Screamed Marie: "Do not provoke me . . . you Stinkard, Base Slubberdegullion, Cheesy Plagiarist, Immortal Whip-Arse, Eater of Stinking Beef!" Poet Milton hurriedly sent her home to learn manners, and Mother Powell shrieked that he deserved to be whipped. But after a few years Father Powell saw that the Parliamentary forces were going to win the Civil War, so he sent Marie back to her influential husband...
...hearty eater. Yet he can still get into his World War I major's uniform. His measurements: 5 ft., 10 in.; 167 Ibs.; 33-in. waist...
...nests under stones and in the bark of dead trees. But it has recently migrated to the city in prodigious numbers because of its fondness for a modern product: rayon. It also likes linen, starched cotton, flour. Unlike the moth, which feeds slowly, the silverfish is a ravenous eater, can make lacework of a shirtfront in a few hours. It is also very hard to starve out ; a well-stuffed silverfish can go as long as ten months without food. Recently an entomologist, having failed to get very far with poison, devised an ingenious silverfish trap: he put flour...
Worse yet, the man-eater in Catherine was not enough for Actress West; she insisted on encompassing the Empress as well, and far from spoofing the imperial manner, tried to outdo it. When a courtier reminded her that "They also serve who only stand and wait," she replied "Quoting Milton's 'prome', I presume!" She had sponged up enough history to soak her play with wars, uprisings and palace intrigues. But the excitement was conveyed in dialogue that had the specific gravity of lead, and the results, when not merely sedative, were often crushing...
...Fire-eater Eaton conceded that investment bankers have insufficient money to do the job. To get such funds, and to keep the Federal Government from increasing its direct financing, he suggested that preferred stock in regional investment banking houses be sold to the RFC. As the capital markets opened up, "the Government could gradually withdraw from much of the banking it is now doing, and security underwriters could retire stock held by the RFC. . . . The time will come again when the emphasis is shifted from riskless refundings to creative finance...