Word: napkinics
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...beribboned, dignified pamphlet, promising heavenly & earthly rewards. (Some of the earthly ones: getting one's, name inscribed in a "golden book," on a hospital plaque, or in a stained-glass window.) At last the volunteer committees hold a "kickoff luncheon." A pamphlet is snuggled under every napkin, and the drive is launched...
...paper napkin is .003 inches thick and such napkins are piled up, starting with one, then adding two, then adding four and doubling the new batch 32 times in all, will the pile finally be one foot high? Or will it be as high as the ceiling? Or will it be as high as the Empire State Building...
There was a Dutch cap made of a kitchen towel, trimmed with four napkin rings, a cookie cutter and a tea strainer. There was a tricorn glittering with plastic cutlery, grapefruit knives and ice tongs, and a hat of a sponge pierced with iced-tea spoons. The queer fact about these hats was that they were all becoming. Ben says: "The sale is made in the mirror...
Snacko. In Richmond, Calif., William Ashe walked into a bank, tried to deposit a paper napkin, belatedly realized he had thrown away a $71 roll of bills after a snack in a cafe...
...Jimmy Rushing trucked onto the stage for his number, "that guy's just about five by five." "That," said Tunesmith De Paul, "is an idea for a song." By the time the evening was over, Raye and De Paul had written the song out complete-on a paper napkin. Four years later Mister Five By Five, plugged to popularity by Bandleader Freddie Slack...