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...Moats was waiting for them, repartee in hand. Asked, at a dinner in Moscow's Italian Embassy, if she knew how Italian officers drank toasts, "Moatsie" snapped: " 'No. All I know about Italian officers is that they pinch girls' behinds.'. . . The others broke into a guffaw...
...before a predominantly masculine audience (which is what any unprejudiced observer would call the motley assortment which patronizes the UT), starts out with two strikes against it. Because when men take their seats at a Robert Taylor picture, they are all ready to snicker and chortle and even to guffaw outright every time the persecuted Mr. Taylor shows his irresistible face. In the old days the male animal used to carry this jealously-inspired persecution even farther, and three years ago in a New York theatre seven men were prostrated with hysterics before Mr. Taylor could utter a single word...
Allow me a derisive guffaw at the perversity of the esthetic editors of TIME, FORTUNE and the ARCHITECTURAL FORUM. After years of tub-thumping in favor of prefabricated housing they don't like the appearance of Carquinez Heights! Believe me, if one of the most sensitive artists in America today, I speak of "Bill" Wurster, cannot satisfy the champions of demountables with a bang-up job like the Vallejo project there must be something basically wrong with the theory. I studied the detail drawings and photos of this job very carefully and am at a loss to know...
Peruvians would often snicker and guffaw as they watched Goodspeed scramble after odd plants. They thought he was gathering aphrodisiacs. But what really interested the botanist was the fact that many of the earth's 60 species of Nicotiana grow among the Andes. There, scientists believe, the Nicotiana tabacum now commonly smoked developed long ago through natural hybridization. Federal tobaccomen think that wild, tough plants from their native mountains can perhaps be crossed with the highly bred, less vigorous tobacco strains now cultivated in the U.S., to increase their resistance to fungi, bacteria, viruses, insects which yearly cost growers...
Throughout his entire 40 years of public utterance Winston Churchill was seldom in better form than this week in his radio speech to the world. His timing was matchless. He rang all the changes of political oratory. He slipped in sly asides that made listeners guffaw; he made them cry with his exhortation to the fallen nations. Now he lashed Britain's enemies with the splendor of Elizabethan arrogance; now he hissed at them in a way remindful of an old-time dime-novel hero polishing off the villain in the last chapter...