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Last week Bangkok police ambushed five armed robbers and stripped them of their lethal weapons: two revolvers, one automatic pistol, five long, double-edged knives, three bundles of rope and a dozen lemons. The last item represents a new twist in Bangkok banditry. Armed robbers use the lemons to gag wealthy victims in daylight housebreaks...
...surprise at walking into Sturdy's room and finding ivy growing on the inside walls, deep and luxuriant. Sturdy it was who started the fad of the costs of many tailors: sleeves by Chipp, lapels by Press, pockets by Brooks, and so on. The thing had started as a gag, but Sturdy saw to it that it mushroomed, and Vag was still shamefaced about having bought one just to string along with the boys...
...Surest gag: Miss Tierney, typing under Harrison's stern dictation, gingerly pecking out four letters which, it is clear, no lady would roll on her tongue...
...track mind," and a friend calls him "one of the few men I know who has learned anything after 35." Billy's greatest aid in the learning process is a sort of photographic brain capable of almost total recall. Pressagent Dick Maney believes that Billy remembers every good gag he has ever heard: "When I first knew Billy, he had only one figure of speech-everything was like the inside of Earl Carroll's stomach. Then it got so I could tell who he'd been out with the night before by the way he talked...
...from four to six hours a day." Actually, there is little room for doubt that Billy writes the prose that bears his byline. The column talks like Billy, it mawks like Billy, it has all of Billy's change-rattling eloquence and off-the-arm skill with a gag. Besides, he is far too shrewd to be caught in a whopping...