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...tear-gas squad rushed to the Plaza, but was warned that one whiff might kill scores of the diseased mob. A messenger ran to fetch Minister of the Interior Miguel Culaciati, who was attending a funeral. At noon Minister Culaciati received an exhausted, coughing delegation, promised to look into the matter of the vaccine...
...child should hold his mother's chair at table, fetch his father's hat, never shout upstairs, always knock before entering a bedroom...
...into Tchaikovsky's Nutcracker Suite, the ballet on the screen turns into flowers, fairies, fish, falling leaves, mushrooms. Mickey Mouse appears in the title role of Paul Dukas' Sorcerer's Apprentice, with silent gusto steals the bearded sorcerer's magic cap. commands the broom to fetch water, forgets how to stop it, nearly drowns in the deluge that follows. To Igor Stravinsky's rip-roaring Rite of Spring, a primeval world, complete with dinosaurs, bubbles up, parades by, dies down. To Mussorgsky's spooky Night on Bald Mountain, hobgoblins and beldams ride their brooms...
There the startled receptionist of Manhattan's Roman Catholic Church of the Guardian Angel found this abject fatness slobbering, went to fetch Father Rinschler. The shuddering fat man looked up and shrieked: "Three men are waiting out there to kill me." Father Rinschler called the police, who dragged the sanctuary-seeker away, still gobbling like a terrified turkey...
...shipped away in time, but thousands of steers and heifers, thousands of poultry had to be turned loose to forage for themselves when their masters fled. Dogs & cats were put away. Refugees were allowed only 28 Ib. of baggage on the Channel steamers, launches, or cattle boats sent to fetch them. They abandoned their motorcars at the beach heads, one wealthy woman auctioning her mahogany-paneled Rolls-Royce...