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Later he drove on to Campagnola. While he was eating a hearty lunch accompanied by a quart of sparkling Lambrusco, a Communist leader burst into his room. "How old are you?" snapped the Red. "Forty-eight," answered the Minister of the Interior, looking up from his meal. "Ah," sighed the Communist, "You made me lose a bet. I just laid down a thousand lire that you were 52 at least." Scelba's bodyguard, who this time had managed to stay by his side and were fully expecting an assassination attempt, sighed with relief, and Scelba took...
...most unabashed hams that ever trod the boards. Despite his looks, he is a kindly and jovial sort of gorilla, who often plays gently with the mice he catches in his cage. The spectacle of Bushman lying at ease like a Roman, munching grapes and gulping quart bottles of milk handed in by his keeper (when in a good mood he politely hands them back), has won the hearts of the multitude...
...pounder drinking on an empty stomach reaches this limit on an average highball, Martini, or quart of beer...
...that time, poverty had spread its chill hand across the U.S. farmlands. Corn had dropped to 19? a bushel, hogs to 2½? a lb. and cotton to a demoralizing 5? and 6? a lb.; dairy farmers were forced to sell their milk for 2? and 3? a quart. Foreclosures had deprived thousands of farmers of their farms; in Iowa alone, one out of seven farmers lost his land between 1926 and 1931. Godfearing, usually law-abiding men banded together and picketed highways, overturning milk into creeks. That was one way to get rid of surpluses...
...Last, Full Measure ... In Middletown, N.Y., a patriotic citizen, after drinking two quarts of blackberry wine and half a quart of gin every week to help ease the water shortage, complained bitterly that the State Tax Bureau had rejected the deduction on his income-tax return...