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...combination of my wife and myself is one that cannot be duplicated in 24 hours." Quipped the London Star, in a cartoon next day: "I have got tickets for Sir Thomas Beecham's next speech. I hear he will also conduct some music." Impresario Fielding resigned in a huff...
Under the circumstances, Langer argues, the U.S. would have been foolish to withdraw in a high-minded huff merely out of distaste for Darlans and Lavals. Langer says that Vichy's North African governor, General Maxime Weygand, "was just as intent as we on excluding the Germans from North Africa and blocking any program of collaboration." Nine months before the U.S. went to war with Germany, the U.S. agreed to ship Weygand limited supplies of coal, sugar, tea, etc. In return, Weygand let U.S. vice consuls work with French Resistance leaders and report in cipher to Washington. In this...
...Highway Huff. In Los Angeles, Bus Driver Dean Helmick again & again chanted "Step to the rear of the bus, please," lost patience when no one budged, glumly swung off his route, drove into a terminal, got out, went home...
...will no more enforce the laws than he will climb to the top of a flagpole to eat his lunch." Next day the Republican Statesman used an entire editorial column to bail out the Democratic governor and bawl out its free-swinging columnist. Vardis Fisher quit in a huff, looked for another soapbox. Last week, readers who really missed him had to buy a tiny upstart weekly called Statewide (circ. 5,000). Fisher and his new editor were getting along fine...
...poor woman without resources put a stone in the pot to feed her children, telling the kids to collect firewood and huff-puff for boiling. The kids did. The kids asked for food, and Mama said, 'Wait, wait and huff-puff more,' and the kids did. Later the kids poked the stone with a stick and found it very hard. The kids told Mama, 'You've said wait, wait and we are hungry.' So saying, they ran away, found food and never returned...