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...private dining room before a table full of Swiss food, and talked to, straight from the shoulder, by two nervous, irritable statesmen whose friendship he valued, whose ability he recognized, whose view point he could understand. It was a dreadful meal. The soup got cold, the champagne warm, the roast greasy. Every few minutes the three diners rose from the table to telephone Rome, London or Paris. Between times they kept looking at their watches...
Baron Aloisi went back to the table with small appetite for the roast. Doing his best, Capt. Eden arranged to keep the League Council in session on the Abyssinian question for a week if necessary. Meanwhile Pierre Laval got a call from headquarters: Things were going very badly at home. Crowds were nervous. Everything pointed to the fall of the Flandin Cabinet when parliament reopened early this week. The Foreign Minister had better hurry home. The last train for Paris left at 10:45 p.m. What time was it now? Nearly 9 o'clock. Mon Dieu...
...crime addicts, much of the grue went out of the case when a State chemist reported that the vault stains had not been made by blood, that the bones were from roast beef and had probably been dragged under the veranda...
...congregation of Israel shall kill it in the evening. And they shall take of the blood, and strike it on the two side posts and on the upper door post of the houses, wherein they shall eat it. And they shall eat the flesh in that night, roast with fire, and unleavened bread; and with bitter herbs they shall eat it. . . . For I will pass through the land of Egypt this night, and will smite all the firstborn in the land of Egypt, both man and beast. . . . And the blood shall be to you for a token upon the houses...
Philbert's mother finds him in the oven. (Caption: "So you stayed in there an' let the roast burn without tellin' Mamma!") Mamma makes Papa remove his suspenders in the street, to lower Philbert into a sewer. ("He thinks he sees a dime, don't he?") Tied to stilts, he helps Mamma sweep the floor. ("Another thing I thought of was sawing the broom off to fit him.'') He walks across the dinner table carrying a heaping dish. ("See if you can't take those Brussels sprouts over to Mrs. Dooley without stepping...