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...British governments both, the last garrison of 322 British technicians left on the British cruiser Mauritius, after a night at the local Gymkhana Club and the Guest House Bar, when they made a manful effort to polish off a three-month supply of whisky in one glorious but decorous gulp. Even Vera ("Hard-Hearted Hannah") Flavell, the penny-pinching proprietress of the Guest House, had proclaimed drinks on the house. By the time the evacuees arrived at the Gymkhana Club once again for customs inspection at 8 a.m., they were too hungover to care any more. "We've done...
...canals, 4,500 schools, and completed the Suez Canal; he also indulged his harem on Paris gowns. Sixteen years after Ismail began his gilded reign, his treasury was empty and his palace besieged by foreign creditors. Ismail abdicated and retired into exile (where he died, characteristically, of trying to gulp down two bottles of champagne at one draught). His Moslem subjects began killing Europeans. The British bombarded Alexandria in 1882, and then took over. They balanced the budget, and set up a sound potential administration, but failed to do much to better the lot of the downtrodden fellahin...
...They had failed in their objective-to gulp down South Korea...
...song hushed in a gulp. A moment later Cambridge police were confronted with only the comparative quiet of the joke box, the television, and 200 lips slurping cool beer...
...skins 'em alive." Last week the Times let writer and reviewer scrap it out in Dogpatch style. Capp, wrote Professor Rapp, "has obviously not heard of the psychological experiments on wit . . . and of the 2,400-year history of the study of laughter . . ." Answered Cartoonist Capp: "I (gulp!) guess I am an amateur. I guess I have been so busy for the last 18 years creating humor (effective enough at least to hold the daily attention of 40 million people) that I just ain't had time to study...