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Exasperation. "Every day on the radio," said Mrs. Noggins recently, "people are told they're a factor in some new crisis or other. I tell you, I'm awful tired of bein' a factor. I jest want to be a 'uman bein' for a change...
...Pius and Pascal. A connoisseur of hospitals, Mrs. Noonan scorned the nurses who had attended her on the occasion of Padraic. "Nosey. They was that nosey that they turned out me locker for to clean it. Quare sort of cleaning they gev it. Examinin' me belongin's. Jest because I had put away a couple of biscuits and crunchies and some fish and chips me cousin got me and pickled pigs' trotters, they told me I was encouragin' the mice with me larder. Larder. Impedence. I said there wouldn't be anny mice in that...
...novel's revelation of this embarrassing patrimony, bequeathed along with the family silver and several hundred slaves, is the cream of Author Williams' jest. By the time he has skimmed it, Grant has taken Richmond, hunger has become the chief enemy and the Currains have scattered all over...
...Stalin prize. To this startled group, Zhdanov laid down the Central Committee's charges against Aleksandrov: 1) he had preached a "toothless vegetarianism" toward the philosophical enemies of Marx-Lenin-Stalin; 2) perhaps unsuspectingly, he had become "the prisoner of bourgeois historians of philosophy." The cream of the jest was that such had been the substance of Aleksandrov's charges against many another Soviet intellectual...
...life he had scribbled poor verses and unsuccessful plays (he was a little envious of the then famous and incredibly fecund playwright, Lope de Vega). But in Quixote, Cervantes knew that he had written a bestseller. He predicted, in jest, a sale of 30,000,000 copies (just about it). Biographer Bell, with other critics, observes that this bland and spacious masterpiece is less simple than it seems. More than a satire on medieval romances, which were the soap operas of Cervantes' age, it leads even the earthy Sancho Panza into a subtly dizzying identification of reality and dream...