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...fig tree withered when a yogi pointed his finger...
...never reached the White House, but in the course of his career there were Henry Clay marches and a song called, Here's to You, Harry Clay, published with his picture on the cover and glowing words inside about "the cheerful Whig who didn't care a fig what Locos block...
...speeches have all been uttered. Their offices have been vacated by the decree of fate. Soon others will occupy their places. ... It is one of the inexplicable mysteries of life in which one surrenders his peace of mind, his tranquillity of soul and life under his own vine and fig tree for a disappointing, disillusioning ignis fatuus in the morass of public life...
...Europeans of the jazz-loving type, a Negro wench always has a head start. The particular tawny tint of tall and stringy Josephine Baker's bare skin stirred French pulses. But to Manhattan theatre-goers last week she was just a slightly buck-toothed young Negro woman whose fig ure might be matched in any night club show, whose dancing & singing could be topped practically anywhere outside France...
Majority Leader Killgrew appealed to the higher emotions (not to say intellect) of his colleagues, remarking in scholarly fashion: "Why, even go back to Adam and Eve, and you find they even were a fig leaf," Fortunately no fellow-legislator cared to delve into the pre-fig leaf period and quote the twenty-fifth verse of Chapter two of Genesis: "And they were both naked, the man and his wife, and were not ashamed."--but there was no second "person of the opposite sex" present, so that our first parents need not add a misdemeanor to their already heavy burden...