Word: happenings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Cracked Delegate Dimond: "If you should happen to see him [Wilbur Pledge Brown] walking down the street with Ananias on one side and Sapphira on the other you might be certain that he was in the bosom of his family...
Majesty, the royal and imperial grandmother asked amiably: "Whom have I the honor of receiving?" Announced Lilybet: "Lord Bathtub and Lady Plug!" This caused not a flicker upon the countenance of Her Majesty, but after the game was over she asked, "How did you happen to think of such queer names?" "Oh, we didn't think of them," explained Lilybet. "While we were dressing up to play, Uncle David came in. We told him we needed some new names and he suggested 'Lord Bathtub and Lady Plug...
...Fortnight ago Angostura-Wupperman Corp. announced that Gobel was using Angostura Bitters to flavor its meats. Said 84-year-old President Josephine Wupperman, whose son, Cinemactor Frank Morgan (Francis Phillip Wupperman), is a vice president: "Isn't it strange how these things happen? Gobel, the great sausage maker, and my father-in-law, the pioneer traders in the great cattle of the Orinoco, were both Adolf-Adolf Gobel and Adolf Wup-perman-Wupperman in the town of Angostura, Venezuela, and Adolf Gobel in New York, both building on a lasting foundation for the benefit of humanity. Now at this...
...among them had ever heard the term 'submarginal land' or worried about what would happen when the original soil played out or ran off to the ocean...
...laughing at the follies of the Brain Trust administration--and this talk I do like too much; but I know even families must be humored--we to Cambridge by noon, and they all a bubble to see the Tower, and by and by to ask me what will happen to it. I to tell them I do not know, but I know at my heart it will not crumble. It is a good Tower built of whimsy stones and vagrant ideas. One day another Vagabond, poor perhaps in purse, but rich in sentiment and imagination will stop...