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...shining in Parliament's yellow-glassed sunlight. His hands were in the pockets of his jacket. His great, willful, strangely babylike head surveyed a packed House, and his words began to growl. For two days Winston Churchill had patiently taken a lambasting from his critics, both serious and snide. Now it was his turn. He began it with an invocation to the spirit of Democracy which was destined for history...
Snootv stores from Coast to Coast ordered a relaxation of snide sales approaches, began to direct their advertising plumb at plebeians. Bullock's Wilshire, tony Los Angeles department store, went after war-workers' dollars; Macy's, New York's people's store, waved farewell to the bon ton trade. Phonograph shops discovered a new kind of customer: not young swing collectors, not symphony lovers, but plain people asking for Old Black Joe and My Old Kentucky Home...
...HOPE. YOU NEGLECTED TO MENTION THE 20 YEARS HE SPENT IN ALCATRAZ FOR KICKING LITTLE CHILDREN AND BEATING DOGS. IT'S NOT VERY OFTEN I GET MAD, BUT TO SPEAK OF THE "APPEALING AVARICE" OF HOPE, THE ONE MAN IN THE BUSINESS WHO DOES NOT DESERVE SUCH SNIDE REPORTING, IS FANTASTIC. I'M GLAD TO BE INTERVIEWED ANY TIME ABOUT ANY OF MY FRIENDS AND PARTICULARLY WHEN IT'S FOR YOUR FINE MAGAZINE BUT PLEASE, PLEASE LET ME TALK TO A REPORTER POSSESSING SOME SENSE OF HUMOR. THOSE QUOTES ABOUT HIS BEING KNOWN AS "A HARD...
Determined to make the Ministry mend its muddling ways, London newsmen badger it constantly, refer to the Press v. Ministry feud as the Battle of Bloomsbury. (The Ministry operates out of Bloomsbury from an elephantine white building borrowed from London University.) Typical of the quarrel are snide cartoons of Minister of Information Alfred Duff Cooper...
Chief headache that God Bless America has brought on is a wave of snide anti-Semitism directed at Composer Berlin. Frequent are the letters to Collins berating him as an Irishman for swelling Jewish coffers. Not much more subtle have been the cracks of journalistic small fry such as W. Livingston Larned of the White Plains (N. Y.) Reporter, who recently bawled: "Oh say can you see by the dawn's early light the Tin-Pan Alley tune mechanics and melody mongers.. . . 'Suppose we put a feller wavin' an American flag on the cover,' suggests...