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Woodrow Wilson made the message pub lic. Five weeks later the U. S. declared war; Zimmermann lost...
Joseph Martin. The leathery little pub lisher of North Attleboro, Mass., his heart long set on the Speakership of the House, last week was still an ideal compromise candidate. Able, shrewd, plain as an old shoe, Joe Martin, 55, is obviously a clearheaded, sobergoing New Englander, as familiar as apples and Biblical proverbs, a man who would bring honest humility to the White House...
...this guy Doug Fairbanks is the first mate on a sailing ship, and he doesn't like to send sailors up aloft when it's blowing and they're liable to get killed, so he quits. And then he goes to a pub and gets lit and there he meets Will Fyffe, who is fat and so Scotch that his burr sticks onto him after he's finished talking. now Will is an engineer and he acts like he's off his rocker, but he's really only a genius. He dreams about steam engines at night. So these...
From within a pub at Weymouth (England) after hours, a passing constable one night last week heard a cheerio voice propose: "Come on, let's have one for the road." His duty was clear. He routed out the publican, haled him before a magistrate. But the laugh was on the constable. The voice from within was no after-closing tosspot's, it was Lord Haw-Haw of Zeesen, No. 1 Nazi propagandist to Britons, tossing off a Briticism over short-wave radio...
...College Youths from their appointed bongfest. Last week, at the Society's 302nd annual shindig, the "Bore War" did what fire and plague could not. This time the members did their Stedman Caters and Oxford Singles with hand bells in the upstairs room of a blacked-out London pub. Reason: open-air change-ringing might drown out air-raid sirens...