Word: giving
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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With Cigar & Mustaches. But succeeding generations never got around to it and Alfalfa Bill was too busy to give it much thought...
...Haida arrived at Bermuda the next afternoon, cheering islanders put out in small boats to welcome the destroyer. Newsmen crowded around to hear about the saga. "What did we talk about?" repeated Grable. "Well-'will you please move over and give me some room?' Only we didn't say 'please.' " Was there any hero in the lot? "Yeah," rumbled one ' sergeant, "there was 18 of them...
...showed up, ragged, half-blind and half-deaf, at the Dixiecrat States' Rights convention in 1948. Stubbornly he refused to let any of his four sons take him in.'To anyone who was interested he would give his still booming opinion on how the Government was presently being run. "Lousy!" Bill would roar...
Borrowing from Ivan A. Krylov (1768-1844), the Russian Aesop, McNeil said: "It seems . . . that a poor serpent was unhappy because everyone was afraid of him, and he concluded that the fear was due to his unfortunate voice. So the serpent pleaded with Jupiter to give him the voice of a nightingale. Up in the tree he went and started to sing with all the seductive charm of the nightingale...
...evil,' said Beelzebub to the snake, 'and most deadly is your fang; but you cannot wound from afar like the deadly tongue of the slanderer, from which there is no escape, even though mountains or oceans intervene. It is clear that he is more evil, so give place...