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...actions were peas out of the same pod. For years the major studios, by controlling distribution, had been able to force exhibitors to take four or five grade B pictures for one star-studded...
...Pontius Pilatism." Negroes, says A. Philip Randolph, President of the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters, are learning that neither Democrats nor Republicans can safely be relied on for help. So far as the Negro is concerned, they are simply "two peas in a pod . . . tweedledee and tweedledum." Negroes are also losing their fear of being terrorized and beaten in retaliation for becoming politically active. "Time and again," says Professor Sterling A. Brown, "I heard the anecdote ... of the new sort of hero-the Negro soldier who, having taken all he could stand, shed his coat, faced his persecutors and said...
...motorized column. Hightower's tank held off nine Mark IVs and a Mark VI, destroyed four of them and damaged the Mark VI before a shell exploded in one of his gas tanks. Hightower shouted to his crew: "Git!" They got, jumping out "like peas from a hot pod." The other, thin-skinned vehicles had been saved...
...catalogue writers did not let them down. W. Atlee Burpee Co. had an Improved Super Snowball Cauliflower, a Tender Pod Bush Bean that would make a mummy drool: ". . . surpasses all others in quality, tenderness, succulence and flavor. . . . The pods are 4½ to 5 inches long, thick, round in cross section, smooth, deep dark green in color, curving slightly, with long and distinctively curved tips. . . ." Peter Henderson & Co. had a Coreless Carrot whose "beautiful appearance alone wins favor for it wherever grown. ... Its coreless, rich red-orange flesh possesses a sweet, melting tenderness that appeals even to those who otherwise...
...send the titles to Miss Madonna Louke, curator, who checks through files to find out if such a company actually exists or if the name has been used before on another case. Much amusement was provided recently by a finance case in which the three executives were called Messrs. Pod, Peas and Beans...