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...Toastmaster Bowers began the attack on the Republican President and his party by mockingly recalling the G. O. Promises of G. O. Prosperity in 1928. He read half-forgotten campaign advertisements?"A Chicken in Every Pot," "Two Cars in Every Garage," "Republican efficiency has filled the workingman's dinner pail and his gasoline tank besides, has made telephone, radio and sanitary plumbing standard household equipment"?and then proceeded to compare them caustically with existing economic conditions. He accused the Administration of giving "human misery the absent treatment," ridiculed Republican Chairman Fess's plan to "sell Hoover to the country...
...cane which has a horn at one end, for no reason. Chased by the mate, he dives behind the curtain of a Punch & Judy show and pokes his shaggy head out in expressions of derision and despair. Groucho Marx makes friends with a gangster, throws a revolver into a pail of water. "It was necessary to drown the gat," he says, "but we saved a little gitten." Later he undertakes to discuss Love: "When love goes out the door money flies innuendo...
...fiercest lion, got into a cage which a keeper was scrubbing. The keeper "did the one thing that would save his life. He took the lion completely by surprise. He emitted a blood-curdling yell, sprang into the air and with all his strength hurled his water-filled pail and his wet mop full in the face of the astonished beast. Hannibal was so unnerved by this attack that he tried to beat a hasty retreat over the slippery floor. His feet flew out from under him and he turned an undignified somersault back into his sleeping den. Poor Hannibal...
...greatest show of courage and resistance comes when it is placed in a pail of water, and held down, beneath the narrow wooden board...
...sister was born little Willie was tethered to a tree along with a calf, and there was a pail of milk close at hand, for which they both struggled, and into which he tumbled and was nearly drowned." Thus Mrs. Edith Gittings Reid, wife of Harry Fielding Reid, Johns Hopkins professor of dynamic geology & geography, begins The Great Physician: A Life of Sir William Osler, published last fortnight.- Her book is briefer (293 pp.) than Harvey Williams Cushing's two-volume year-by-year life (1,413 pp.). Yet she gives a full picture of "the greatest physician...