Word: omelet
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...Adolf Hitler has not obtained any lands beyond Germany's frontiers in Europe or the return of any colonies overseas. He has smashed the numerous, pettifogging States which cluttered up the Reich from an administrative point of view, breaking German eggs right and left to make the omelet of a strongly centralized, potentially efficient Nazi Realm...
Sons o' Guns (Warner Bros.). People who are amused by the fact that Joe E. Brown's mouth resembles an omelet will not mind this version of a musicomedy in which the late Jack Donahue danced in 1929-30. Reluctantly embroiled in the War, Brown participates in a number of gags which culminate in his impersonating a British officer, getting involved in a battle, impersonating a German officer, bringing a German regiment back to the U. S. lines. Good pantomime: Brown, convinced that he is to be shot, rehearsing the way he will smoke a last cigaret with...
...those of Comrade Stalin. On the Politbureau of the Communist Party which rules Russia, Stalin is No. 1, Kaganovich No. 2. When the Five-Year Plan was wallowing among blunders Comrade Kaganovich coined an immortal, all-explanatory slogan, "Why wail over broken eggs when we are making an omelet!" Last week this potent Bolshevik let fly at the regime of a state with which Russia is on diplomatic and officially friendly terms, the Third Reich of Jew-baiting Adolf Hitler...
...World War and they called him Weatherstrip because he kept his father out of the draft. The boy has so many wrinkles on his forehead ... he has to screw his hat on his head. . . . On his vest is dangling a golden charm . . . it's a piece of an omelet. . . . He says 'What is that?' And she says 'That is a canvas back duck.' And he says 'Well, take the canvas back and bring me the duck...
...Union Theological Seminary, Manhattan, a new teacher was introduced to the student body, Professor James Moffat. He has translated the Bible into colloquial English, changing "Garden of" Eden" to "park," "a mess of pottage" to "a red omelet," "Wise men of the East" to "magicians," the Virgin Mary's reply to the angel, "I know not a man," to "But I have no husband...