Word: sayings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Marxism, passions and rancors," he said, "that it is natural for us to look toward America. The sea is no longer a barrier but a road to be traveled over ... In foreign politics . . . what counts [is] mutual understanding . . . and clean friendship on all sides, and so I will say, in the words of the song: 'He who does not feel this way should not ask us for love...
...Monkeys have thin, pressed-in lips, while people have fleshy lips turned outward. It is not by chance that many ladies paint their lips: they are trying to say, 'Look, I'm a human, not a monkey...
...Mathews, 27, who divorced Comedian Milton Berle, 40, two years ago, even though she rated him as "a swell person and a great artist," was rumored thinking of remarrying him. "Why don't you ask Milton?" said she to a nosy newsman. Said Milton: "Well, now, suppose I say maybe...
...say I'm forsaking Christianity," urged Dizzy Gillespie, goateed high priest of bebop, announcing his conversion to Mohammedanism to Chicago Sun-Times Columnist Irv Kupcinet. "Christianity is forsaking me. Or better, people who claim to be Christians just ain't. It says in the Bible to love thy brethren but people don't practice what the Bible preaches ... I been studying the Koran myself. That's the Islam Bible, you know. Once I get converted, I can't drink, or eat pork...
...drowning." "Very good," said Patrick, "then how about coiling yerself in this box here for it is very comfortable." ;' 'Tis not big enough," said the snake. " 'Tis big enough and plenty," said the saint. " 'Tis not," said the snake. "It is," said the saint. "I say it is not," said the snake, and to prove the point he crawled into the box, whereupon St. Patrick clapped down the lid and snapped the lock and that was the end of the last snake in Ireland...