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...creek, up a slope and over another hill. All along the length of this ribbon there is now a thin line of men. For four days and nights they have fought hard, eaten little, washed none, and slept hardly at all. Their nights have been violent with attack, fright, butchery, and their days sleepless and miserable with the crash of artillery...
...early silents, emerged from 20-odd years of retirement. Her victim was goggle-eyed Groucho Marx. The studio audience found the famed vamp about 30 Ib. heavier than in her salad days, but still trim in the legs, hypnotic in the eyes. They also found her afflicted with stage fright. The ex-siren told reporters she did the stunt as a favor to friends, had no idea of trying a comeback, then returned to the curio-cluttered mansion where she has long been one of Hollywood's most diligent and lavish hostesses...
...with every other shortage, the civilian will sooner or later pay for his greed. Just when cotton goods rationing will come depends on whether the U.S. civilian from now on buys from need or from fright. But the best bet is that fright-buying has already gone so far that rationing will come by next fall, even if hoarding stops...
Drugstore Demon. Harold's first job was in an Altoona drugstore, where he one day "dispensed laudanum for paregoric," nearly died from the fright of his mistake. In 1890 he shifted to his uncle's drugstore in Chicago and saw a new world he despised. "The 'filthy rich' drove behind high-stepping horses drawing ornate equipages from which tall-hatted coachmen and footmen surveyed their surroundings with a truly devastating scorn." For three years Harold Ickes glared at "the intangible ingredients out of which a careful architect was to build a robust curmudgeonly character." He learned...
...radio stations in 7,000 half-hour programs, 5,200 quarter-hours, 4,700,000 spot announcements. (In parrot-loving Mexico one brilliant radio plot backfired: at a contest offering prizes for the first parrot to say "Mejoral es mejor" over the air, all the parrots got mike fright.) Mejoral religious calendars (which devout Latin Americans love-see cut), joke books, pamphlets on how to love, how to read a horoscope, how to recognize an airplane, flooded the Hemisphere; 150 sound, movie and poster trucks stormed its hinterland...