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...violations. Beebe didn't seem to be paying much attention. He was preparing to publish a catalogue containing photographs of hair roots from the heads of static sufferers. After it is off the press, he prophesied, all previous methods of diagnosis will become archaic. Doctors will simply jerk a hair from a patient's head, put it under a microscope, and leaf through Beebe's booklet to find the trouble...
...monster intricately built of cable, hooks and steel joints prepares to jerk a noose around a Jap's neck-as the Rising Sun sets in the background...
...find out things never noticed before"; his reaction, "truly incredible boredom." The most trying period was "the latter half of the first 25 performances. Then I got my second wind." Newman learned to sleep open-eyed, but the slightest deviation from the script would wake him up "with a jerk." Slight differences in intonation or timing came to be "minor events." When Newman occasionally slipped out for a breath of air, "the actors who resented my continuous presence most . . . objected to my temporary absence even more." The acting, Newman found, was highly intermittent. He noted many missed cues and cases...
Johnson also originated the prototype of the famous remark about Thomas E. Dewey credited, curiously enough, to his friends.*A friend of Johnson asked him of a mutual acquaintance: "Isn't he an awful jerk?" "You don't know what an awful jerk he is," Johnson replied, "until you get to know his better side...
...shore-end of his sturgeon line to Babe, his vast blue ox, one hot day when sport was slow. Babe, nipped by a horsefly at the moment a sturgeon took the bait, twitched so violently that the huge fish was sent sailing all the way to Payette Lake. A jerk like that could well have given the creature a curvature of the spine (Slimy Slim is a three-hump serpent). And then Slim developed his periscope neck by nostalgically trying to peer back over the hills toward the scenes of his childhood...