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...Rich, and few Texans could resist that sort of an appeal. Ma won. A rawboned woman with an American Gothic jaw, she looked as hard as a banker's heart. Actually, she was a college-educated, devoutly religious, well-bred woman who was about as political as peach cobbler. She was, above all, a dutiful wife. Her first act as Governor was to sign an "amnesty" restoring Farmer Jim's right to hold public office. (It was rescinded by her successor.) Though both Fergusons were teetotalers, they opposed Prohibition. In her first term, Ma released 3,600 prisoners...
...Marxists in terms of class conflict, Manhattan Book Dealer Henry ("Chip") Chafetz views it in terms of Lady Chance. How did an Indian squaw pick her brave? By how good a gambler he was; otherwise she and the kids might find themselves the pawns of a sharper peach-stone roller. What did Thomas Jefferson meditate on while composing the Declaration of Independence? His losses at backgammon, cards and lotto. Who caused the Great Chicago Fire? Not Mrs. O'Leary's cow but Mrs. O'Leary's crap-shooting son, who was rolling the bones...
FRAUDULENT FLORA is being pushed through mails by a few unscrupulous nurserymen in offers designed to lead homeowners up the garden path. The "rare and beautiful ailanthus" turns out to be the weedy "stink tree," nothing like its brochure picture; the "amazing climbing peach" produces an inedible gourd unrelated to the peach. FTC is warning nurserymen against shrubbery shenanigans...
...grow old . . . I grow old . . . I shall wear the bottoms of my trousers rolled. Shall I part my hair behind? Do I dare to eat a peach? I shall wear white flannel trousers, and walk upon the beach...
...make the most beautiful peach pies in the world, but I never get the contest prize. A woman gets the prize who always bakes the judge a pie before judging day. I would bake a pie, but I do not believe it is fair. I have been gypped out of the prize for ten long years. What should I do?" Answer: "Get another judge...