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...when Lyndon Johnson came to Washington as an aide to Texas Representative Richard Kleberg, part owner of the famed King Ranch, he worked himself into a case of galloping pneumonia and collapsed. When he came to in a hospital, he found Sam Rayburn at his bedside. "Now, Lyndon," said Mister Sam, "you just take it easy and don't you worry. You need some money or anything, you just call on me." Johnson did not need the money, but recalls that "the most comforting moment in my life was to see that man sitting there dribbling cigarette ashes down...
...last few weeks, Mister...
Pass: Say, these are real beauties, aren't they? You've got a pretty sharp wife, mister. (pause) By the way, where are you headed...
...critics scoff at the nearly total domination of kiddies' books by such animals as Saggy Baggy Elephant, Curious Little Owl, Peter the Sea Trout, Cottontail Rabbit, Brush Goat, Milk Goat, Cuter Tooter (a donkey), Rudolph, the Red-Nosed Reindeer, Little Brown Bear, The Happy Lion, Big Brown Bear, Mister Dog, Shy Little Kitten, Snuggly Bunny, Thidwick, the Big-Hearted Moose. Not that animals are new in fables, but now nearly all writers of children's stories seem to suggest that 1) the animal kingdom has become an animal democracy where no one would ever tell a skunk that...
...people at Marlboro feel that such a familiar relationship does not reduced the respect accorded to a man as teacher, for such respect is supposedly based on stronger things than the addition of a "mister" before a name. It would appear, however, that this is true more in the case of the top notch teacher than in that of the less able instructor...