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...Nod. In Toronto, St. Clair Hilborn, charged with giving his son a lethal dose of sleeping pills, explained that he had been hexed by a black cat which shook its head at Hilborn, nodded significantly...
...gristle on an uncooked thighbone. Both women were completely bald-the result of radioactivity. They were also in the last stages of hysterical fatigue, for day & night they had to fight off assault waves of rats, whose fecundity seemed to be increased by atomic action. If both women should nod at once, even for a moment, the revolting masses would be on them, and the rats, with their ingenious minds and uninhibited pragmatism, would be the heirs of the lost-atomic world...
Heaven's whole foundations to their center nod...
...does Mr. Strauss Goes to Boston perk up as a period piece; the festal splendors of the Jubilee, the starched manners of Boston, the suave elegances of Vienna get barely a nod; even the sets and costumes lack lure. The Waltz King's own music has been reduced to a minimum and revamped to no good end. Most of the tunes in Mr. Strauss are by Robert (Zwei Herzen im Drei-Viertel Takt) Stolz, and the best of them are not more than agreeable...
Moving steadily along the way to normal times, he abolished the Office of War Information-with a nod of praise to OWI Boss Elmer Davis-and appointed his great & good friend, Washington Businessman George E. Allen, to find ways of lopping off other bureaus and agencies. From Budget Director Harold Smith he got an estimate that the U.S. would spend about one-third less in the 1946 fiscal year than the $100 billions it spent...