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...family selects the clothes she wears. "We went shopping for a dress," she said, "and he turned thumbs down on all the new lengths. 'But,' said the saleswoman after I had modelled everything in my size for his approval. 'everyone, simply everyone, is wearing the new skirt!' 'Madam,' he retorted, 'would you regard me as a character who wants his wife to look like everyone...
...called believers in democracy and liberalism say that the fact that Madam Flagstad returned to her quisling husband during the war proves the case against her. It is my contention that true love between husband and wife surpasses all else...
George Bernard Shaw once made (or is supposed to have made) a classic retort to Isadora Duncan's eugenic proposal: "Madam, what if our child should have your brain and my body?" Secretary of Commerce Henry Wallace has spent much of his working life investigating the implications of G.B.S.'s rude rejoinder...
...along the West Coast, hunger was South America's own preoccupation. Pointing up the irony West Coast people saw in Herbert Hoover's food-hunting trek, a ragged, famished youngster in a Colombian cartoon begged for "a penny, madam, for the poor little European children who are so hungry!" Colombians, crimped by their ever-present transport problem, were forced to fly beef to their upland capital. At first they offered Hoover only coffee; later they considered relinquishing 8,000 tons of wheat promised by Canada. Ecuador, usually short on wheat, had a bumper rice crop...
...permission of the copyright owner, Chappell & Co., Ltd. *An A.P.H. anecdote: Once, when Lady Astor scolded a crapulous and corpulent M.P. for "pouring that awful poison into your stomach," he replied: "Madam, I have been drinking this stuff for many years, and I would be glad to put my stomach against yours...