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Said petite Chinese Fan-Dancer Noel Toy ruefully: "When I am dancing, the fans fly apart. I cannot help that." Said Miss Hart: "I have never done a bump or a grind in my life." Said Miss Toy: "Neither have I. It's vulgar." Added Miss Hart: "I slink...
...Jimmy Byrnes's problems is to cure causes of limited production: Farmers are skimping on expensive protein feeds that a cow needs for top yields. Machinery is rationed or nonexistent. Farm wages are too high for many an operator to pay. Laborers are abandoning the seven-day-week grind of cow-tending for easier, better-paid city work. Thus big & little farmers are selling herds: the culls for slaughter, the good cows mostly to neighbors; heifers-next year's cows-are being sold for beef at fantastic prices. Results: fewer cows were milked in October than any other...
...face. I grabbed the gun and Lee laid Johnny aside as best as he could and started feeding it. ... The Japs kept sending groups of men, 35 to 50, charging down into the water while bullets whistled all around us. ... I could hear my teeth grind together as I swept my gunfire across group after group. . . . Diamond was working furiously when they got him in the arm. He fell across my legs. So I alternately loaded and fired...
...chocolate soda, a sandwich, occasional sips of water, vast, durable Kate Smith topped the shattering, 17-hour war-bond-selling grind of moderately vast Charles Laughton (TIME, Oct. 12) by three hours and $1,675,550. She sat down at a mike at Manhattan's WABC at 6 a.m., one minute later answered the first phone call from a bond-buyer, answered calls for the next 20 hours at the rate of two a minute. At 6 p.m. she complained of a sore neck, asked somebody to hit her. No one did. At 2 the following morning...
...tossed in gags-their own, burlesque's, the Army's-by the carload. They waded waist-high in corn. They piled Pelion on Ossa, and Minsky on the War Department. They plundered burlesque for all it was worth-strip teases and straight men, the "elephants" and the "grind"-and then brazenly parodied...