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High Tea. In Washington, D.C., questioning James Morgan in his home about a robbery, the cops spotted a tea kettle on the stove, lifted the lid and found $650 in the boiling water...
...cigarette cases were designed to fire when the lid was open, exposing what looked like a full pack of cigarettes. But the cigarettes were only butt-length tips; behind them was the mechanism designed to fire a charge of poison into a man's bloodstream by a mere squeeze of the finger at the point where the case was naturally held in proffering a smoke...
...When a cooking pot begins to stink, it's time to put the lid on." That was the advice the influential Tokyo Shimbun recently flung at Premier Shigeru Yoshida, 75. A government corruption scandal of Teapot Dome proportions threatened to overturn Yoshida's conservative coalition government. Everyone wondered whether shrewd, durable Premier Yoshida would be able to meet this challenge...
...playin' a duet wit Liberace. So I hits two notes, he hits two notes. Then I say, 'In a competition, you got to use all your weapons.' So I starts to play wit my nose. So Liberace comes over and accidentally touches the piano-key lid and it comes down on my nose." Sadly stroking his bandaged pride & joy, Durante murmured: "A mortifyin' experience...
...line of portraits pasted up for pilots who did not return from "the great fighter graveyard of the west" grew longer in Knoke's mess. Morale slumped; defeat stared. "Every time I close the canopy," Knoke wrote in August 1944, "I feel that I am closing the lid of my own coffin . . . Every day, the number of aircraft diminishes . . . The German Fighter Command is slowly bleeding to death...