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...political platform demanding that doctors guarantee cures, "Peace" be substituted for "Hello" as a telephone salutation, life insurance be abolished. Father Divine habitually ends his letters: "This leaves ME Well, Healthy, Joyful, Peaceful, Lively, Loving, Successful, Prosperous and Happy in Spirit, Body and Mind and in every organ, muscle, sinew, vein and bone and even in every atom, fiber and cell of MY bodily form...
...operation that the Press gives a Senate investigation is usually even greater than it receives. In the committee room there is generally a regular system of note passing, as reporters send up questions to help the investigator. Frequently one or more newshawks provide most of the blood and sinew of an inquisition. They not only dig up original facts but stand at the committeeman's elbow helping him with suggestions during the cross examination. Behind Senator Black in the airmail investigation was loud, talkative Fulton Lewis Jr., a Hearstling who two years before had begun to ferret out airmail scandal...
...hams which must be cured (one month to three) and sausage which must hang in the drying rooms four months before being passed by inspectors. Of a 250-lb. hog all but 9.38 Ib. goes into edible products. The residue consists of hides for tanning, hair, skin and sinew good for glue, grease for lubricants, bones for buttons, bone-handles, Mah-Jongg sets and dust. Orientals pay more than $100 per Ib. for hog gallstones. The ultimate remainder is brewed, dried and ground, sold as stock feed. Only the paunch manure is not used for anything. And, as stockroom adage...
...long swell of the Pacific rocked the clock-faced fighting tops of nine battleships of the Battle Force (Pennsylvania, California, New York, Oklahoma, Nevada, Tennessee, Colorado, Maryland, West Vir-ginia). Their radios were ominously silent and they did not come alone. Trailing in their wake was the naval sinew which complements the nation's mightiest sea arm. Jauntily steamed four light cruisers (Omaha, Cincinnati, Concord, Detroit). Rolling porpoise-wise came 24 destroyers. Like sluggish metal fish, six submarines crawled along with decks awash. Plowing forward in the procession were the Lexington and the Saratoga with aircraft on their flat...
...only to the British appetite for beef, but also to the British appetite for advertising, which may be why an attempt to Bovrilize the U. S. several years ago failed. Almost as delectable as Bovril are such Bovril puns as, "When it's in you-it's sinew!" or, "Don't let him-Mrs. Bovril." Bovril slogans can be didactic ("Bovril puts beef into you"), appositive ("The world-famous beef-tea"), enticing ("Bovril tickles the palate"), or purely comic ("Take Bovril and keep up to Pa," with a picture of a small boy standing on a bottle...