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...Duck," "Soapy," "Fig...
...during a track meet to christen Harvard's old runner "Soapy" Walters, that it takes a warm moist spring to name a "Bud"' Weiser, a long hot summer to make "Dusty'' Rhodes, the big-league ball player, or a Oriental climate to grow a "Fig" Newton; whereas probably any one knows that those names, like Topsy, "just grew." A boy named Pond probably is called "Duck" in grade school, unless unfortunately he should happen to be a "Lily...
Chief Tshekedi, backed by a corps of lawyers, argued his case most fluently, adding considerably to the brilliance of the scene by appearing throughout the trial in a pair of pink-striped pajamas from Bond Street. The hero of the Antarctic mopped his brow under the withered fig-tree and gave judgment: 1) Lewd Phineas was banished from Bechuanaland forever. 2) For daring to punish a white man, Chief Tshekedi was removed from the Bamangwato tribe, exiled from his tribal lands. Admiral Evans pronounced the verdict on Chief Tshekedi as sympathetically as possible...
...said bored Judge David, "they are just a lot of boobs to come to see a woman wiggle with a fan or without fig leaves. But we have the boobs and we have a right to cater to them. . . . Case dismissed...
...caring a fig what U. S. citizens drink, small Belgian grocers & wineshop-keepers gathered in Brussels last week, paraded through the capital with banners reading LONG LIVE FRANKLIN ROOSEVELT, VANQUISHER OF PROHIBITION...