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...Edward Burke invited them to his sub-committee hearings on his proposed Constitutional amendment limiting a President to one six-year term, to explain their support of a third term for Franklin Roosevelt. They hedged. Rumbled Alben Barkley: "A wise man may change his mind, but a fool never does." Quipped Henry Fountain Ashurst: "I am confronted with such a situation that I must vote . . . for a third-termer rather than a third-rater...
...always been more or less chronic, but King Carol in the past ten years has put up a show of developing from a Royal Scapegrace, first class, into a dictator, second class. But last week many of his subjects saw him as an archtraitor, or as an arch-fool who relied upon the guarantee of Great Britain to save Rumania...
Eight years ago, the Japanese Government demanded that Christian schools and some individual Christians take part in shrine ceremonies. Officially the Government tried to pass this off as a form of politeness to departed heroes, like D. A. R.-ism in the U. S. But Japanese don't fool themselves: Shrine Shinto is a religious rite. The Government pressed Japanese Catholics and Protestants to join "patriotic" ceremonies at Shinto shrines, has been as insistent about it as Red-fearing U. S. school boards are about saluting the flag...
...town coroners last week, Dr. Wadsworth sounded off on "pseudo-experts, damned-old-fool judges, tissue-grabbing pathologists, psychopath lawyers." He gave a lecture on ballistics which mocked many a detective-story cliche. Salient points...
Warner jokers once hung signs on a Curtiz set reading "English Broken Here," "Curtiz Spoken Here." Some Curtizisms: "Next time I send some fool for something I go myself," "Sit a little bit more femine (feminine)," "Act easy-go-lucky." Prop boys on a Curtiz set are supposed to know that "boy cows" are not steers but cow boys. Malapropism is not Curtiz' only peculiarity. He addresses everyone at Warner's up to Bette Davis as "you bum," gives the best borscht bawlings-out in the business. He takes no lunch, tried to coax actors to have...