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...takes a heap of fussin' to make an apartment a home...
...There was audible opposition, of course. Oscar R. Strackbein, chairman of the Nation-Wide Committee on Import-Export Policy and for a decade Washington's No. 1 professional lobbyist for trade barriers, warned that the bill would give the Administration "power to push domestic industries onto the ash heap." Spokesmen for firms that make machine tools, watches, bicycles, pianos and other products complained that tariff cuts would injure their industries. But these warnings and complaints seemed no more fervent, and perhaps less persuasive, than at hearings on reciprocal trade renewal in past years...
...Remember, the red wine must never be chilled") to find the answer. "My head is full of you," says David, ignoring his typewriter. "That's wrong," says Barbara mock-sternly, "it's supposed to be full of beautiful words and declarative sentences." It takes a heap of declarative sentences, including several inverse clichés that are almost as good as clichés ("Love makes the world go square"), to establish the fact that David and Barbara are less soulmates than checkmates. At musical's end, he is going back to his native Maine to quarry...
...that censorship was inevitable. As Twain wrote in 1880, "Fielding and Smollett could portray the beastliness of their day in the beastliest language; we have plenty of foul subjects to deal with in our day, but we are not allowed to approach them very near..." 1601 was the junk-heap into which he tossed, half-humorously, half-despairingly, the knowledge and the words which in Victorian America would not have been tolerated in his masterpiece...
...Succeed in Business Without Really Trying is the secret that Actor Bobby Morse shares with the season's most appreciative audiences, as he clambers deceitfully and nimbly up the corporate slag heap...