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...Markham was in fine elocutionary fettle. She exhorted her listeners in the high-school gym to vote the whole Democratic ticket. Then she dropped one hand on the shoulder of the man sitting next to her. How proud she was, Mrs. Markham said, to be standing beside "my little pal here." Everyone looked at the man, scarcely noticed until then, who sat peering over the top of the uncleared table. When he was introduced as "someone who needs no introduction -everybody's friend," he leaped to his full 5 ft. 4 in. of height. In the gravelly voice...
...friend of one of the guests "had a licence to keep pigs" and the host's hens "happened to be laying." A well-stuffed tea bin is hastily attributed to "hoarded American gifts," while the gay poppings of corks (which resound throughout the book) are thanks to "a pal at Portsmouth" or even "an old pal of mine, Pinky Smith [who] sends me . . . rum from the West Indies." There is also an enviable abundance of maids, nannies and cooks, which Author Thirkell explains by declaring that their employers have "a genius for getting people to work for them...
Poor Bernie. He must lie awake nights just thinking of what happened to his old pal Stuhldreher over at Wisconsin...
...Master, Captain John Pankey, sophomores Pal Judy and Goddie Cooks, Jim Little, Clark Coggeshall, Ted Scudder, Steve Sharp, and sophomore John Kimball complete the first 12, in that order, with Owen Edmonds and Jim Downey the alternates...
...When one of the pioneers drifts off into the stratosphere while clambering around outside the rocket, the tendency is to snicker rather than become alarmed over the fact that he may not come back, because you are quite sure that he will. The remarkable rates of speed which George Pal's vehicle attains do not keep "Destination Moon" from begin a pedestrian movie...