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...originals) through that hilarious old gin-rummy game, and asked a visiting U.S. Senator's wife: "You want to wash your hands or anything, honey?" She also marked the beginning of her social awakenings by defining "peninsula" as "that new medicine." As Harry Brock, the bullying baron, of junk who tries to buy the U.S. Senate, Paul Douglas was again, as he was for 1,642 performances on Broadway, superbly irascible and boorish...
...impetus for this offensive upsurge must go first to Jordan, who had the courage to junk his conservative single-wing in favor of the more deceptive T-formation--thus allowing him to utilize his experienced backs more profitably...
...gammon. In a country of free teeth he has only five blackened stumps ("tombstones") and possesses nothing much but a cherished tapeworm, which he "gasses" with liberal quantities of raw onion. But his friendship with Arp glows like the lavatory float of "valuable copper" in a desert of uncommercial junk...
Quality Control. In Passaic, N.J., thieves lifted a dilapidated pair of shoes, an old shirt and a necktie from the apartment of Arthur Church, left a note: "How in hell can honest crooks like us make a decent living when we get stuck with junk like yours...
Wise Fish. Ever since then, sometimes in fleets of three or four, sometimes in a single junk, sometimes trusting their lives to a flimsy sampan across 30 or 40 miles of open sea, other Chinese fishermen have followed the original 1,600 to Hong Kong. Some were caught on the way and either executed or sent to Red labor camps. For all of the estimated 4,000, the hoped-for joys of freedom proved elusive. Those who had managed to smuggle out their own fishing gear found it antiquated and almost useless in waters where the local fishermen...