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...flicked off the set and looked at the other screens. A-23--that lout Reeves was sleeping again. Never cleaned his room until the last minute, and last week the Inspector had found that pile of dirt under the rug. The Master had been reprimanded...
...Government-purchased agricultural surpluses continue to pile up, said Wallace, the time will come "when the American people will rise up in indignation. Farmers had better keep that in mind. I don't want to see the people of the U.S. rising up in their wrath and refusing to pay any support prices, as they did for potatoes...
Omelette. In Las Cruces, N. Mex., a deputy sheriff was looking for the thieif who stole twelve dozen eggs from a farmer, left the cartons and the pile of empty shells in a nearby field...
...neighborhood, 17 of her club women gathered for a similar rite around $1,265 worth of furniture. The pushcarts full of food were symbolic of hidden and direct taxes extracted from an average paycheck each year-enough to buy groceries for a family of four for ten months; the pile of tables and chairs represented the tax drain on an average Morgan Park family...
...afflicted by "seedy hauteur" and rarely allowed "those thin lips of his [to] cream in a smile . . . the most damned soul I ever met." They shared rooms in an old tower outside Dublin until Gogarty upset the mutual trust one dark night by firing a revolver into a pile of saucepans that hung above the sleeping poet's pillow. In so far as he ever does, Gogarty blames himself for not having noted at the time "the latent lunacy" of his pistol-shy pal; but he explains that "it is one thing to study lunacy in an asylum, another...