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Exciting as their first visit to the White House was, the young Eisenhowers had more important business on their minds. On their very first afternoon in Washington, David and Barbara Anne went off to inspect the zoo, chaperoned by a sheepish Secret Serviceman (Mamie and Barbara Eisenhower went to a matinee). David thought the zoo was fine until a lion roared at him. And though Barbara Anne wandered fearlessly into the lion house, David stayed outside, peered through the door. "I can see all right from here," he explained. When he got back, young David had some afterthoughts about...
Santayana appears to have had a taste for puns, not always of the most hilarious sort. One of his cartoons shows an undergraduate and a young lady sitting primly on a couch; the student is telling his girls, "If I look a little sheepish Miss Roseleaf, and all my friends tell me I do, it is because my clothes are all wool...
...crossing streets. The commonest ailment treated at the hospital is "Paris tummy" -a catchall label for the painful bellyaches that result from too much French food and wine. Next in frequency are heart attacks, suffered by elderly businessmen pursuing delusions of youth in Montmartre. A few scared youngsters and sheepish oldsters drop in at the outpatient department after a possible exposure to venereal disease...
...plot, the movie throws in a couple of production numbers from the Ziegfeld Follies, in which Rogers starred. But it is in Will Rogers Jr.'s performance that his father comes most alive on the screen: the familiar slouch with hands jammed in pockets, the unruly forelock, the sheepish grin, the shambling wisecracks delivered in his famous gumchewing drawl...
...campuses girl students seemed to welcome and even abet them. Georgetown University, a Catholic men's college in Washington, B.C., was invaded, in fact, by an automobile caravan of squealing females. Scores of students poured out after them before faculty members stepped in and sent both forces into sheepish retreat...