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Mustard and ice cream are, in their proper settings, palatable items. Served together as a sundae, without the loss of individual flavor, they would soon convince the eater that each was better off without the other. The same is true of Jack Benny as "Charley's Aunt." Not that both the picture and Benny aren't screamingly funny--just that the picture would have been funnier with Jack Benny in something else and the same might be said of the Waukegan romeo...
...many as 20,000 captives were sacrificed at one time in the Aztec metropolis. Victims' flesh was sometimes eaten "in the belief that the eater can absorb the virtues of the eaten...
...trouble some years ago when he was asked to cover an Illinois wolf hunt on an expense account of $10. His itemized list included such expenditures as: "To rent car Chicago to Springfield,1?; gas for same, 1?; oil for same, 5? (it was an oil eater); to rent horse, 1?; hay, 5 mills; to rent glasses to look at wolf, 1?." After worrying the subject for a while, Casey discovered he had spent only $9.90. He polished off the matter by adding: "Wolfbane: 10?." To remind the accounting department of the terrible time it had with that itemized record...
...Marked for Thought Control, if it does not behave itself, is a certain Council For Launching National Policies, which is backed by that grey-bearded, ascetic fire-eater, Mitsuru Toyama, head of the Black Dragon Society. The Council For Launching National Policies has been holding public meetings, and lately it sent a spokesman to see Premier Prince Fumimaro Konoye. The Premier had one of his convenient colds, so the Council sent the Government a letter of advice, with a broad hint that the advice had better be followed...
...cocked his shoulder nervously, his left leg snapping up as he did so. ... And now I understand the meaning of an expression the party hacks were using when we sat around drinking in the Dreesen last night. They kept talking about the 'Teppichfresser,' 'the carpet-eater.' . . . They said Hitler has been having some of his nervous crises lately and that in recent days they've taken a strange form ... he flings himself to the floor and chews the edges of the carpet. . . ." Shirer saw Hitler again right after Munich: his nervousness was gone...