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...Washington," moaned poverty-stricken Slobbovia's accredited representative to the U.S., "is no udder Ambassador gotta work nights in a hash-house he should kipp alive...
...Italian parties made that Italy's No. 1 political question. The pudgy onetime theatrical producer (who looks like a jovial Eric von Stroheim) denounced Mussolini, of course, but he also said: "You cannot govern without exercising dictatorial power." His program was vague. On domestic questions it was a hash of the ideas of Thomas Jefferson, Henry Wallace and Franklin D. Roosevelt, but with a strong flavor of Huey Long. Playing no favorites, Giannini hailed the Republican sweep in the U.S. as a victory of "the uomo qualunque in America." Sometimes his appeal was even broader: "We place our hope...
...well that there are only four periods of fifteen minutes each in any one football game. If the spectacle on Soldiers Field Saturday had been prolonged very much whatever elation was felt when the final horn did blow would have evaporated into nothing. A big fresh team making hash out of a smaller tired team isn't much of a show, even for the Crimson cheering section . . . There was an uneasy feeling that this team, which, as everyone knows, doesn't run up 49-0 scores that belong to Texas couldn't have been a Harvard football or Alabama...
When short, square-shouldered Jean-Paul Sartre, the latest lion from France's literary zoo, visited the U.S. last year, he swiftly developed a liking for such American commonplaces as the dry Martini, corned beef hash and chocolate ice cream. He also slowly developed an awed liking for bustling, noisy, overcrowded, squalor-spotted, ill-mannered New York City...
...cocktail (vodka, French vermouth, Swedish punch and a dash of orange bitters.) "It's a beauty," said Moe. "It'll make sour tempers sweet, and have 'em all talking the same language-if they can still talk." One Joe Forestieri, proprietor of a Bronx hash-house called the College Luncheonette, prepared to re-name it UNO Joe's. He explained carefully: "You could take it in two ways." Gate crashers schemed to get into UNO meetings with a vigor heretofore reserved for the World Series and heavyweight fights...