Word: happens
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Sometimes when you stop to consider the potentialities of the disturbing final, with all those nasty little obscure points which could be so nicely included, and which may be, for all you can tell, the subject of humor seems a bit strained. Yet, funny incidents happen here all the time. For instance, we understand that quite a few of the people around here named Smith had a little laundry problem...
...Washington likes to blame it on the visitors . . . but it is strange that those who flock to Washington just happen to be people of extraordinary alcoholic capacity and desire...
...good will and equally well aware that Sosnkowski's appointment would be a new irritation to Russia, handed his resignation to President Raczkiewicz. The British Foreign Office, working overtime to bring Poland and Russia into agreement again, may have voiced displeasure at the prospect of Sosnkowski. Whatever did happen offstage, at week's end it seemed clear that Acting Premier Mikolajczyk, leader of the democratic Peasant Party, would be made permanent Premier. General Sosnkowski was to resign as Deputy President, be appointed Commander of Poland's Armed Forces, promise to stay out of politics...
...breaks into uncontrollable laughter, or vomits. But an hour or so later he is "high." He has a sensation of floating on air, or falling softly on waves. His ears ring sweetly, his head swims pleasantly, his limbs are langorously heavy, his hunger grows, especially for sweets. Curious things happen to his perceptions of space and time. Objects a mile outside the window may seem with in easy reach. A lazy minute may seem like an hour. Curiously, the power of mental concentration appears to increase rather than diminish. Some specialized workers find that marijuana stimulates their faculties...
...seeing this column start out with "Dear Tula", for that is the regular writer's one and only thought these days. In fact, Melvin Parnell, "Flotsam and Jetsam" originator and penman, has done such a good job of writing these letters to Tula that things have begin to happen fast and furiously. Tula is no longer in far away Chicago, but right here in Cambridge...