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...than the shrieks of pleasure with which non-stop readers of Pelham Grenville Wodehouse sometimes curdle the late night air above pent and country houses. Aldous Huxleyans and Evelyn Waughans smile from time to time with irony and pity, but their eyelids are a little weary. Confirmed Wodehousians hoot, holler, writhe, snort, bellow, nicker, and in culminating transports, belch. Asked why, they may look blank, indignant. Anton Chekhov once said that the best description of the sea he had ever read was written by a Russian schoolboy: "The sea is vast." Wodehousians explain the master's illimitable spell just...
...your information we run a respectful joint in here we dont allow no blows struck some people do not have the manners of a dog if you are a fighter go to the garden they are looking for you we aint if anything aint right dont throw things holler for the boss act like you had some sense if possible...
Conspicuously absent from the list was scrap iron, important war material, of which the U. S. has plenty for its present needs. Chief sufferer from a scrap embargo would be Japan, who gets around 60% of her supply from the U. S. As it was, Japan had plenty to holler about because, with Russia, she has been the main foreign buyer of U. S. machine tools...
...exporters had plenty to holler about too. Given only three days to comply with the new rules, fill out license applications, they asked that at least goods now in transit to foreign buyers be allowed to go through. Fumed the Wall Street Journal: ". . . The peremptory manner in which this action was taken, with practically no advance notice to the export trades, was a perfect illustration...
...should do something besides "holler" for peace. Each generation must do its share toward continued welfare...