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...enjoy the fruits of his conquest. He marvelled at the deft skill with which he had snared the bread from under the clutch of his neighbor. "Physical Ed's made me a new man," he gloated, proudly fondling the bulging biceps of his right arm. Gracefully ignoring the fork that clattered to the floor, Vag reached out for his cup of tea. The long last month wasn't so bad at that, he reflected as he sipped contentedly. Of course, the daily aches were wearisome, but they were worth it. Vag snorted when he picture his once flabby form. Never...
Possibly Marshall Field would fork over -on the theory, proclaimed by one observer, that "A.P. is like an elephant: it's worth a lot if you run a circus." But A.P.'s liberalized by-laws did not get a membership for the Chicago Sun. The Sun's application was voted down by the members, 684-to-287. Bluffing, Colonel McCormick himself applied for an afternoon membership. And Colonel McCormick's friendly cousin, Cissie Patterson, applied for a morning and evening membership for her Washington Times-Herald...
...teeth grew that way. His hair insists on its greasy disarray. His expensive grey suits wrinkle fast over his fleshiness. He often changes his habitual white ties several times a day, but they invariably get smudged. He is a heavy, un-French eater and uses his fingers as a fork, his fork as a toothpick...
...General MacArthur's new command in Australia; and he had something else up his sleeve. He had found one of those sly, semi-scholarly parallels on which he loves to impale his more annoying critics, like marshmallows on a toasting fork. In 168 B.C. the Consul Lucius Aemilius Paulus, about to lead the Romans to victory over the Macedonians, had made a speech to his people. For years the speech had hung on War Department doors, gathering dust and flyspecks. Franklin Roosevelt brushed the flyspecks off Lucius Aemilius, and quoted...
...biggest interest disbursements in U.S. railroad history was announced last week by Baltimore & Ohio Railroad: $22,073,408. The sum represented six months' to three years' back interest on nine bond issues owned by some 70,000 B. & O. bondholders. B. & O. was able to fork out the cash because of last year's near-record traffic, which produced $51,442,000 of revenues available for interest...