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...Smart Aleck" Sirs: . . . You better leave town after quoting from that smart aleck, Erskine Caldwell, because the Chamber of Commerces south of the Potomac will want to tar and feather you, and ride you on a rail for your dastardly inference that folks are starving in the South. I'll have you to know that we might have illiteracy, hookworm, inertia, lynchings, murder, pellagra and malnutrition, but never "starvation." They can starve in Russia if they want to (or if Hearst wants them to), but they better not starve in the South, because the Chamber of Commerce...
...expedition set out from Addis Ababa in March 1928, reached its destination three and a half months later. The Danakils, especially those who had no feathers in their hair, gave them many an anxious moment. (A feather stuck in a Danakil topknot shows that a year has not elapsed since he killed a man.) Three of the expedition's carriers strayed too far from camp, never came back. Hottest day's temperature recorded was 168°F. Even in the shade it was unwise to touch a rifle-barrel. Because the temperature of the human body is only...
...would mean, ipso facto, to Mr. Nash that of brains by weight and volume Mr. Milquetoast has no more than a feather...
...booth at a London Fair, Queen Mary saw a jigsaw puzzle, tried to put it together, failed, bought it. Next day she made more news by wearing a feather-decked hat instead of her customary high toque...
...hall men and women in full evening dress made no attempt to control their laughter. Dignified gentlemen sat with handkerchiefs stuffed in their mouths and tears of mirth streaming down their cheeks. But Mrs. Jenkins went bravely on. For a Spanish group she wore a mantilla, carried a big feather fan, undertook a few little dancing steps to convey more spirit. While she was getting her breath, the Pascarella chamber group played Dvorak's Quintet and cameramen photographed the happy laughing faces in the audience...