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...misses. The big difference is the steady signing from every table, a recreation banned by law in Boston. Yale is the singingest college in the East, and Mory's gathers music waves like a sonar machine. If a person isn't singing, he's hushing his friends to hasp someone else sing...
Lord Beaverbrook's bright and blasty London Daily Express last week reached the world's record daily circulation of 2,876,163. One reason: John Cameron Andrieu Bingham Michael Morton was providing the best possible coverage of the hasp situation. Reported...
...Equal Hasps. "Beachcomber" uses the hasp* situation as a peg for the blithe puncturing of postwar planners, youth groups, aged conservatives, bureaucratic red tape, military dignity (a favorite character is "Captain Foulenough"), political coalitions (the Independent National Anti-Coupon Pro-Caucus Semi-Conservatives) and many matters British. Thus...
...bought it for $600 from a violinist. The fiddler had paid $12 for it to a man who claimed to be a lawyer settling the affairs of a client. By the end of the week Elsa Hilger had redeemed her Guarnerius. Her claim was granted when she described a hasp on the case. She had tried to mend it with a nail when a screw dropped...
...platform in Kandahar's largest square stood throneless King Amanullah and a small ironbound box. Seizing the box firmly, plump Amanullah struggled with the iron hasp. Loudly he grunted, stoutly he tugged. So entertaining was the fat man's performance that though he sweated and wrestled on the platform for two full hours, the entire audience remained. Finally when his most vigorous contortions and loudest grunts began to pall, Amanullah paused, cried aloud to Mohammed for assistance. A final tug, and the box flew open. Perspiring Amanullah held high Mohammed's sacred cloak. Convinced, the Afghan audience...
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