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Commuter trains, which habitually lose money, are habitually dirty, uncomfortable, crowded, apt to be late-and generally a closer kin to Emett's famed Punch cartoons than to the glossy streamliners. The short-run trains are little better. For the smell of stale tobacco smoke, the sight of stained seat cushions, and close contact with orange peel, cigar butts, and sandwich wrappers, the U.S. offers nothing quite like a Pennsylvania Railroad day coach on the New York to Washington...
Trade Tool. In Memphis, Emett J. Ragland defended himself in court by exhibiting his diploma from Lumpkins Barber College, was nevertheless fined $50 for carrying a razor...
...took pleasure in taking pains, Belcher once spent two hours roasting a chicken to precisely the right shade of brown for painting. Though other Punch favorites, such as Rowland Emett and Fougasse, relied more on fantasy or stylization for their effect, Belcher never felt the least temptation to desert, or improve on, the humor of the world around him. Last week, at 72, he died...
...well to the right (". . . and my Italian prisoners put up the silo"). An enormous bomber roars low over a tiny cottage which, luckily, just fits between the bomber's mighty wheels ("I'm afraid we shall have to leave building the new wing until after the war"). Emett's capacity to embroider a theme with variations applies not only to railways but also to such other redoubtable English features as ear trumpets, bath chairs, lantern-slide lectures, and fair weather performances of A Midsummer Night's Dream on the vicarage lawn...
...Emett, who lives in Birmingham with his wife, and works on the drafting boards of an airplane factory, tactfully comments on himself as follows: "Living, as he does, within a stone's throw of the center of England, Rowland Emett likes to imagine that he has his finger on the pulse of affairs-particularly those of the more curious sort...