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Aristocratic Samuel Talifer, an admiral At least, if mot a monarch in appearance, returned after ten years' absence to his native village, whose obvious though unstated locale is New England. There he met and fell in love with Althea. Disturbingly before their marriage he also met Karen, a heaven-wrought sheath...
...lame duck was ever better fitted for such a job. Mr. Moses knows news. It was to gratify reporter friends anxious for a Monday morning headline that he dubbed his irreconcilable western colleagues "The Sons of the Wild Jackass." For this mot and the animosities behind it, he was not re-elected to, although he retained, his Presidency pro tem of the Senate throughout the 72nd Congress. His friends believe that his sharp tongue was what really lost him his Senate seat...
...rapidly rose to be Fascist deputy, editor of the party organ and one of the right-hand men of Adolf Hitler. Herr Hitler attended Dr. Goebbels' wedding last winter. Fortnight ago when the Nazis were venting their rage at the von Papen Cabinet, tart-tongued Goebbels coined the bon mot of the week at the expense of General von Schleicher: "Bayonets may be good for lots of things, but one cannot sit on them forever." The quotation that caused his muzzling last week was angrier and not so funny. Writing of the Beuthen death sentences he said...
...tide the Conference over this ugly crisis, Premier Edouard Herriot made one of those speeches which Frenchmen make so well. Keynote: "President Hoover's declaration was founded upon a noble idea." Bon mot: "In all languages the verb 'to disarm' seems to be an irregular verb...
...silver studio apartments and spirituous clinkings in the shaker can lend urbanity to commonplace repartee. He dislikes the glib patter that comes forth like a well-learned lesson from the actors' mouths. He misses that moment of hesitation which, in real life, attends the birth of a bon mot...