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...fiftyish, big, blonde and blowy. In California, where she came from, she told her friends she had invented a portable headrest called the "Sunap." It came in two models-blue canvas for men, imitation white leather for women. Another of Mom's gadgets was a "nonslip grater" which could be locked to the side of a chopping bowl. It was guaranteed not to shred fingers along with the carrots. Mom had a hard time marketing the grater. "Everyone liked it, dearie," she explained, "but shortage of tin-you know...
...humor on occasions. Few things in radio have been better done than, for example, the Gilbert & Sullivan parody of last year with Leo Durocher. It is here that Allen's genius finds its best outlet-that is as a writer, and perhaps a director, rather than as a grater-voiced, not-so-funny funnyman...
They howled and they screamed. The comedian gave them a look of deep distaste and tongued his three-stick gum wad to the other side of his mouth. In the well-known nutmeg-grater tones, he announced: "For those of you who got caught in the crowd and swept in here-I would like to say that this is the Fred Allen show, and you still have eight minutes before we go on the air to get the heck out of here." They flailed helplessly in their seats...
Pointing out that basic room rents now are substantially at the 1940-41 level, Durant claimed that the rent rise is necessary to meet 30 percent grater costs resulting from the "period of inflation...
...Brassières: "Scratch like a vegetable grater. . . . Could hold a wild bull in leash...