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...Grieffs Restaurant on the main drag a mouselike little man turned his palms upward, pointed to the blisters and said: "That's what I get for having to bury my garbage in the backyard." A well-dressed young office worker tried to rub the dirt from her nylons with a paper napkin and snapped: "I wish they'd clean the streets...
Best known in the U.S. for his lavishly detailed anti-Nazi cartoons, which for a time were frequent Collier's cover subjects, and for his 1940 illustrations of The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám, Szyk is now laboring lovingly over illustrations for the Book of Ruth and the Arabian Nights...
With a fine crop coming in, the French land has once again proved itself, and food, in large quantities is getting to market. The meat situation has improved so rapidly that all rationing was lifted last week, and steaks are plentiful--for a price. And here the rub comes in. All food (except milk, which the French never had, and citrus fruits which are out of season) can be had, but for a price. The black market is king. But the strange thing about the black market is that it is not only a phenomenon of shortage but has also...
...keep in mind the fact that our Constitution was framed by Southerners; that for the first 80 years of our national life, Southern men were the leaders of the nation. You think you are better than anybody who lives in the South, and you never lose an opportunity to "rub it in" on the Southern people...
...himself to be a man of amazing diligence. He considered his soul: although a Democrat, he harbored no ill will toward Republicans, at least those in the 18th Congressional District, Los Angeles County, California. They were his constituents. A sentence drifted into his mind and he allowed it to rub on his brain lobes for a while. It began: "Believing as I do that the destiny of our beloved Nation depends upon the participation of an informed electorate...