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...Wink & Guffaw. Since the court ruling would cause a fantastic increase in tax valuations, the legislature changed the law to call for assessment at 50% of actual value. Then the state board of equalization, Governor Robert Crosby, chairman, set out to equalize the assessments from county to county. This meant that almost every real-estate owner in Nebraska was hit with an increase in taxes. In Crosby's home town, North Platte, town-lot tax valuations more than tripled. Although the State Supreme Court had forced the action, most of the public ire was directed at one man: Governor...
...field and vigorous enough to make her way in a strictly masculine universe. In both ways the choice of Helen Maud Cam was singularly fortunate, for besides being a ranking medieval historian, Miss Cam, in her late sixties, has more of an intellectual bounce and a livelier guffaw than most of her younger and graver students. And at an age when most scholars are remembering their earlier inspirations with a tepid chagrin, Miss Cam can wax enthusiastic about a book she read yesterday or a Maitland she read three decades ago. One student in her seminar on medieval documents, dizzied...
...every inch the pirate he claimed to be. He habitually arrayed his strapping, 6-ft. 1-in. frame in the generously sweeping gestures of the quarterdeck, and boasted homerically of his vast appetites for food, drink and women. When asked his profession, "Old Ches" would reply with a huge guffaw: "Smuggling." Men and women in all walks of life fell easy prey to Ches's flamboyant charms, and after failing to see him for long stretches, old friends would frequently renew acquaintance with a happy smile and the affable greeting: "Hello, you old s.o.b. Been in the jug again...
There is a very funny picture playing at the Brattle Theatre this week. The longest of reading period assignments and most foul exam schedule imaginable should not keep any true lover of the constant guffaw away from His Gal Friday...
Almost all the cartoons in the book, and there are over 400, cause either a guffaw or an "ooph" depending in each case on the reader's politics over the last six years. A few have lost their sting, but most still retain a quality which can best be likened to the impact of a razor-sharp sledge hammer...