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...city. Unsightly shacks were torn down, red gravel was spread like rouge over rough paths and disheveled roads, and a multitude of women of low caste swept every inch of the main highway with hand brooms. If the visitors would only visit enough of the city, went a popular quip, New Delhi might quickly lose all its slums...
...pops Goodie Knight." "Wholesome Insincerity." When the gubernatorial DC-3, The Grissly, is set down on a California runway, Goodie can always count on a welcoming swarm of local Republicans waiting eagerly on the apron. Goodie has a remarkable memory for names, delivered with a personal greeting, a quip and a hefty whack on the back...
While classmate Walter Lippmann joined the College's Socialist Club, Reed did not. Nor did he learn radicalism in class. Another classmate, the late journalist Heywood Broun was able to quip later that he himself became a Communist because he went to see the Boston Red Sox play instead of listening to his economic's professor's lecture refuting Marx. But John Reed was not interested enough in his studies to learn Marxism in the classroom...
...Well," said the listener, "I was around to all the markets today and goods were scarcer and prices higher than ever." "That is a serious error, Comrade," said the speaker. "You should try to go to the market less and read the newspaper more." ¶I In Bulgaria, they quip that the Communists have raised the standard of living so high the country can't reach...
...addition the Cavaliers put out Harvard's Captain Vince Moravac for the rest of the season with a broken kneecap. The final score itself proved to be a sharp reversal of the Crimson's opening victory when more fortunate scheduling had provided cartoonist Peter Arno with the opportunity to quip about the Harvard graduate. On that occasion, the eleven whipped Western Maryland...