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...Spokesman Lord Snell charged Lord Portsea with "exaggerating" conditions on the Channel Islands, the Baron rose again. Said he, in his quavering voice, the Islands should never have been abandoned in the first place. "If we had held out," he cried, "the Scharnhorst and her friends could not have slunk up the Channel. . . . They say there is no hope. . . of food being sent. We can only send bombs. . . . If I could find a teller, I would divide now. Will any noble Lord tell with me against the Government...
Once in the fold, she acquires an aging socialite (Ian Hunter), a plush Park Avenue apartment, seven diamond bracelets, six fur coats, and the eye of the gossip columnists. In the end she dies of a brandy heart-but not before she has slunk, semiclad, through sumptuous extravaganzas that make the old Ziegfeld Follies look like the East Orange Passion Play...
...Stork Club with an eyesome blonde. Near his table sat Walter Winchell. The moony young man's eyes bulged with appeal to Winchell for a word or even a look of recognition. Ignored, William P. Lear forgot his triumph of the morning, snarled at the blonde slunk sadly from the Stork Club, and astonished his companions by going home alone...
...conferees gathered about Prime Minister Mackenzie King, Mitch Hepburn slunk off by himself, returned only when the meeting was called to order and he was forced to sit next to the Prime Minister. The Prime Minister made a short speech of welcome, appealed to the Premiers to join in deliberating on the reconstruction of Canada's Constitution and taxation system. Mitch was the first to reply. He read a brief which not only rejected the report but insulted its authors as well. To him the report was a well-cooked nefarious deal" to get provincial debts taken over...
...last moment, the News had cold feet. Sole evidence of Sadie Hawkins Day in the Bowl was an undergraduate representing Daisy Mae, who suddenly dashed on the field at halftime in the midst of a humorless procession. They cavorted a few minutes before the silent, unsmiling stands, then slunk away...