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During a week in which-as the President told his neighbors-the foreign situation had kept him busy 12 to 15 hours a day, he also found time for an automobile ride with gloomy Guest Baruch, two short trips down the Hudson on the Potomac, a picnic lunch with members of the summer White House staff. And in a call at the Hudson River State Hospital for the insane, the President proved himself a less gloomy visitor than his own guests. He told a class of graduating nurses what had happened when he visited a similar institution at Ogdensburg...
...best translation would be 'he doesn't mind taking a girl home from a picnic.' Literally translated it says 'he doesn't care out.' When a Pennsylvania Dutchman says he 'doesn't mind' he is expressing a rather high volume of enthusiasm. So, to translate the phrase into 'likes' for Yankee readers, TIME isn't going...
...leap wolfishly upon a well-laden table, snap at everything in sight, including their own fingers. Thirty years ago U. S. audiences roared with delight at a similar scene, in which two hungry Negroes, yearning for a mythical farm where ham trees and biscuit bushes grow, come upon a picnic basket; one of them seizes a banana, peels it, stutteringly devours the skin. That was the sure-fire climax of The Ham Tree, one of the most famous musical shows that ever toured...
...hame lawfa, 'hot er g'sawt. 'Its akinda feicht tonight.' 'S maid'l is noh laenich hame, un so is aw der Abie." Translation: "Abie Walbert from out in back of Lehigh Church says he likes to take a girl home from a picnic, only always makes him nervous until he has asked her. The other night he was going to take one home from the dance at Shamrock, but instead of saying, 'May I " walk home with you,' he said, It's akinda damp tonight.' The girl went home...
...interested in knowing that it was not taken from a homicidal striker, but was taken from an A & P store clerk, Maurice Needier,No. 2700 Market Street, who was returning peacefully from a picnic where he had used his machete to cut wood for a fire. Mr. Needier is now under indictment for carrying concealed weapons...