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...rushed in & out of the bedroom without knocking: South Carolina's Senator Jimmy Byrnes, foxy, mellow, casual; Florida's Senator Claude Pepper, the eloquent, scarlet-faced swamplands slicker-both 100%ers. Big & little Democrats came in hordes, some humble like San Antonio's globular Maury Maverick (who came out saying "I didn't sit down-a small-time politician like me wouldn't dare"), some sardonic, like massive Federal Lender Jesse H. Jones, who lounged about, cracking hard Texas jokes, made no attempt to consult with the new Field Marshal of the Democratic Party...
...Reichstag (accompanied by a running translation into English). An ex-cavalryman, Vice President Weiss soon began to get sore at Hitler. Presently, after chewing a fat cigar to tatters, he remarked to his assistants: "This is the damndest program I've ever heard. This guy Hitler is a slicker." Thereupon, he popped into his secretary's office, dictated a two-sentence statement, stomped down a corridor to the master control room of his key station KHJ. Thrusting his statement upon a startled announcer, he barked: "Read this and flip the button." Promptly over the Don Lee network went...
...practiced opening their mouths and stuffing their fingers in their ears, glanced anxiously from the suspended bomb to a nearby ambulance. Everything was ready. Two truckloads of irreverent army goatherds amused themselves by bleating in imitation of the goats. Here, there and everywhere, trailing the skirts of his green slicker, hat drooping with rain, pants spattered with mud, gesturing excitedly, hopped Mr. Barlow. The goats munched...
With something of the same picturesqueness, Two on an Island has none of the force or feeling that made Rice's Street Scene truly expressive of a phase of New York life. Like Imperial City, Rice's flashy novel about Manhattan, Two on an Island is slicker than sincere, more lifelike than alive. It's a pretty safe bet in the theatre that, when Boy Meets Girl, Artist Meets Waterloo...
Most military photographs that cross the sea from Germany represent death-dealers-heavier bombs, bigger Berthas, faster Heinkels. Most military pictures that cross from France and Britain represent life-savers-slicker gas masks, thicker walls, deeper holes. Last week, straight from a Hounslow, Middlesex, firm with the reassuring name of Concrete, Ltd., came some examples of British ARP (Air Raid Precautions) art which would gladden the heart of any wisely defensive ostrich...