Word: em
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Senator Taft's "Let 'em eat less!" [TIME, Sept. 22] reminds me of the story of the welfare worker who was instructing a group of low-income housewives how to make nutritious soup from a soup bone. When she finished she inquired if there were any questions...
...after The Jolson Story came out, they did a big switcheroo. 'Please, Mr. Jolson, don't sign with anybody else for ten minutes. Just give us ten minutes, please.' Sign, ha, ha! I didn't want to sign with nobody, so I tell-'em $7,500 a week. They say yes and I almost drop dead...
...wanna do it!" screams Al. "I was swindled into it by this tremendous ego of mine. I'm like a chile, I tell yah! 'Al,' I said, 'Al, old fella, they wantcha again. They finally seen the light.' Oh Lawdy, I got 'em good. And I just couldn't resist rubbing their noses...
...used to seeing bare sunbathers jump up, let.out a squeal, and do a header into a towel. At the home of one Hollywood star (first magnitude), the maintenance man often finds her with a male guest, necking at the poolside. Says the imperturbable workman: "We just work around 'em...
...Abner had ever been cut out of the 420 daily and more than 500 Sunday papers which buy the strip. (Two other papers also objected to one of last week's strips.) Said Capp: "If anything is public property, it's the U.S. Senate. We elect 'em, and we pay 'em. Anyway, the whole sequence is just a cleaned up version of the Hughes investigation, during which the U.S. Senate was a more ludicrous, comical spectacle than any artist would dare draw...