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...Last week Labor Party Leader Clement Attlee favored the House of Commons with one of his most turgid effusions of Marxist dialectic, argued that Britain ought to "begin now to plan" to adopt Socialist nationalizations of the means of production as an aid to winning the war, provoked the quip, "If that speech could be bottled, Attlee would make a fortune selling it to cure insomnia...
...Catalan front in Aragon became scandalously inactive. So conspicuous was Barcelona's failure to wage effective warfare against the Fascists, either industrially or militarily, that a favorite, bitter Loyalist quip was that Catalonia, alone of 27 European nations, had lived faithfully up to the non-intervention agreement not to help either side in the Spanish War. In May 1937, Anarchists tried to seize Barcelona and the Central Government, then at Valencia, had to send troops to Catalonia to restore order...
John Alford Stevenson is a refutation of George Bernard Shaw's quip: "He who can, does. He who cannot, teaches." Getting a Ph.D. at the University of Illinois in 1928, he began a teaching career which eventually took him to the Carnegie Institute's School of Life Insurance Salesmanship as director...
...heavyweight champions who retire to Connecticut farms to read Shakespeare, titled Hollywood hangers-on, and wrestlers-who, in the gruff MacLane lingo, are nothing but a lot of humpty dumpties. What dates The Kid Comes Back even more surely than its two-year-old automobile models is the anachronistic quip: "This time I'm right. . . ." "Oh yeah! So was the Literary Digest...
...Whitehall, meanwhile, one of British Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden's fashionable young men had invented a quip which was soon being drawled in the salons of Mayfair: "It seems the American President has delivered a new Sermon on the Mount-Mount Blank." Much too God-fearing to join in such British ruling class levity, Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain at once took action to fill in what His Majesty's Government regarded as the most vital part of the Chicago speech- its blanks. The British Embassy in Washington was instructed to ask exactly what the President wants...