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...General Manton S. Eddy, had extended every military courtesy-including brandy and a talk about the battle-to the city's captured defenders: German Lieut. General Karl Wilhelm Dietrich von Schlieben and Rear Admiral Walther Hennecke. As he accompanied his prisoners to the door, camera bulbs flashed. A grump from the Germans brought a tactful explanation: the U.S. press is free; General Eddy could not and would not forbid the photographers to take pictures. General von Schlieben snarled that he was bored with the whole idea of a free press...
...ship's speaker system, Oct. 26, Captain Gatch asked his men if they were ready. Bulkheads rattled the shout of 2,000 men: "Aye, aye, sir!" The first attack lasted eight minutes. The enemy threw in 20 dive-bombers. The battleship spoke with all its voices: the huge grump-grump of 5-inch all-purpose secondary batteries, the more frenetic chattering of smaller pieces...
Jimmy Roosevelt threw Paulette Goddard and the entire Heidt Brigade into the pot with Jimmy Stewart, and the product is not gold but unpalatable musical hash. Stewart remains the easy-going, honest boy from the sticks who migrates to the big city. The heavy is his grump uncle who wants Irish Mary Gordon's property. Although he has to plaster his uncle with a rotten tomato and give away a thousand dollars over the radio to do it, Stewart finally effects the obvious Anschluss. Ma gets the house and Jimmy gets Paulette...
This dinosaur, known as Triceratops eurycephalus (wide-head), represents the last recorded surviver of that great grump known as the Certopstaus...
...Manhattan newspapers. Seasoned readers recalled Sunny Jim. He was the jolly old fellow with the brimless plug hat. the erect queue of white hair, the towering collar, red jacket and yellow waistcoat who advertised Force, the breakfast food, 30 years ago. Before eating Force he was a scowling grump named Jim Dumps (with hair queue drooping). A famed old jingle told his story...