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For one thing, they must still seem like insect and animal. For another, their story is a problem because actually there is no story. And beyond that, they reflect a very personal, crinkly humorist and constitute a very Volstead Act and vers-libre period piece, the two things meeting in...
"If the kids were to learn about this law," he worried, "I can see what would happen. The kid would come in and say, 'Pop. gimme a dime.' Pop says no. So the kid replies: 'You better, or it's going to cost you two hundred...
Late one night last week, a slight, balding man with a hawklike nose, wearing a sharp gabardine suit and the air of an English butler, emerged from the jailer's office at the East Cambridge, Mass, jail and barked, "Gimme an aspirin, will you?" He was Joseph James ("Specs...
Mighty Mouse. In Dixon, Ill., Cook William Young was fined $10 on an intoxication charge after he mistook a neon sign over the police station for the name of a bar, walked in, slapped his hand on the counter, piped to the desk sergeant: "Gimme a shot."
Journalism: "Gimme the desk. Hello. Mac? Hold the presses . . ."