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Scientific minds have often sought an answer to the profound question: "Why is Scuttlebutt the second most popular pastime of military men?" (Don't get nosey, bud, by asking what's first.) As yet, this remains a moot question; no satisfactory solution has been offered...
...down the phone and tap with your foot on the floor, diminuendo. That is Nosey going away to find the doctor. You may breathe naturally now and think the matter out. After a suitable interval you tap on the floor with your foot again, this time crescendo, pick up the phone, and (a) gripping the nose as before: 'I'm sorry, the doctor isn't in at present. Can I take a message, Mum?' or (b) in your own voice: 'Hullo, Jones, about that match on Saturday...
...parade course in Sociology with Oscar Homolka standing out as Vasiliev, the Bolshevik bloodhound's bloodhound. Both Clark Gable and Hedy get on the Reds' blacklist, he because his journalistic scoops have been smuggled out of Stalinland and she because her father (tap irvisaged Felix Bressart) was too nosey. But though Hedy's only a valet's daughter, she can wear as well as press the pants. Stealing a Russian tank, she leads Gable and half the Red horde in a Balkan invasion as part of one of the funniest reels in film history. The picture as a whole, however...
What nationality? Maybe they were Swiss, Afghan or Bolivian, chortled the President, who presumably was aware that Canada has no submarines. Franklin Roosevelt then told his questioners not to get too nosey, left them to guess: 1) Why he could not say flatly that the sub marines were German, or 2) Why, if he lacked positive information, he said anything...
...editing was completed by Biographer Peter Quennell (Byron: The Years of Fame: The Private Letters of Princess Lieuen). Missing from the collection are any letters from Byron's half sister and mistress, Augusta Leigh, Lady Melbourne (see above) or Annabella Milbanke (Lady Byron). It adds little that the nosey world does not already know about the Byron legend, but it touches up some less known amusing episodes. Sample...