Word: sayings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Jimmie") Walker, nimble-witted onetime mayor of New York City, by which the survivor will deliver the other's funeral oration. Showman Jessel has spoken 50 eulogies in the last 15 years. Most memorable one, over the body of Broadway Comedian Jack Osterman last June: "Mr. God, they say you've got a great big heart, so give the boy a great big hand...
Five years ago coffee-colored Joe Louis was an obscure Detroit factory hand. He could read slowly, write a little, say "Yas'm." Last week 25-year-old Joe Louis, now able to write a check for $1,000,000, returned to Detroit to show his fellow townsmen how his education had progressed since he became heavyweight champion of the world...
Bombs laden with disease germs, another persistent bugaboo of modern warfare, are shrugged off by bacteriologists. Man, they say, can culture and concentrate disease organisms, but it is hardly likely that he can start epidemics in civil populations unless he reproduces the conditions, many of which are still unknown, which make natural epidemics possible...
...Government in the last war, invented a wireless control gear for torpedoes. After some scientific snickers at death rays and bacteriological bombs, Professor Low growled: "Whether Hitler has any horrors or not to produce at the moment-and I am of the opinion he has not-I can truthfully say that if Britain so desired she could at this very moment out-horror Hitler...
...Roland Greene Usher's Pan-Germanism. Said Professor Usher: "Needless to say, the European war will not involve the United States in hostilities...