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...Boole then demanded to know why people should drink horrid tasting alcoholic mixtures when they could have such nice healthful things as tomato juice cocktails; apparently Mrs. Boole is not aware that alcoholics are among the greatest imbibers of tomato juice. However, she went on to say that "now is the time when we who are really dry will demonstrate to the world that the delicious fruit cups we had here today can be prepared without the use of alcoholic liquors...
...Magill, would add $40,000,000 to the U. S. income, and would put a stop to the practice whereby a husband or wife transfers taxable assets to the spouse with a lower income to avoid the heavy surtaxes in the high brackets. Again Banker Mitchell was made a horrid example...
...wife went in search of them, insisted on accompanying a detail of Portuguese soldiers into the wilderness of the Cacheo River. Last week the Senegal correspondent of the Paris Petit Journal reported that Mme Gate & party had returned to the coast, not with her husband but with horrid information gleaned from natives. Pilots Gate & Constant-Bree had crashed in the river region. There black cannibals caught, butchered, cooked and ate them in a drunken orgy...
With more plot and fewer girls than most Marx Brothers comedies, Duck Soup has the disadvantage of adding nothing to vary the essential technique of their efforts. It exhibits Chico & Zeppo as usual, Groucho less flatteringly than in Horsefeathers. Admirers of Harpo should be particularly pleased with his horrid actions in Duck Soup. He carries a plumber's blow torch for a cigaret lighter, conducts a wordless telephone conversation by means of horns and bells, irritates a lemonade vendor by doing sleight-of-hand with his straw hat. Good shot: Harpo, impersonating Groucho in order to steal "war plans...
...they had a lot of fun with their swart, persistent Inquisitor Ferdinand Pecora. He had just taken a drubbing as candidate for District Attorney of New York County (see p. 16). Inquisitor Pecora said he was "relieved." Dampened not a whit he ripped into the ever-widening circle of horrid-sounding facts that his staff had delved from Chase National Bank's voluminous books...