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...over the world. In France the Communist weekly, France Nouvelle, shrieked dutifully: "French independence seriously threatened by the dollar kings!" In the U.S., meanwhile, Henry Wallace and his political siblings continued to tell Americans about how wicked the British and French imperialists are. From Canada came a sharp, short snort of laughter. During its eager emanations of anti-Americana, Radio Moscow had recently quoted the Montreal Times as writing that U.S.-Canadian military ties were merely part of Canada's "final subservience to the U.S.A." It was true-the Montreal Times had indeed published suggestions...
Wheelhorse Snort. For the rest, speculation ranged from Washington's Governor Mon Wallgren (a close friend of Harry Truman's), to Illinois Senator Scott Lucas (geographically bad), to Supreme Court Justice William O. Douglas (whom F.D.R. had listed alongside of Harry Truman as an acceptable running-mate in 1944). By convention time President Harry Truman would undoubtedly narrow the field to working size. Meanwhile Democratic headquarters was jubilant. Snorted one wheelhorse: "Six months ago everybody was running for President; now everyone is running for Vice President...
Thomas Bangs Thorpe on the charms of Arkansas: "Why, stranger, just breathe Arkansaw air and it will make you snort like a horse." (Mosquitoes? "Well, stranger . . . it is a fact that they are rather enormous. [But] if they are large, Arkansaw is large, her varments are large, her rivers are large. A small mosquito would be of no more use in Arkansaw than preaching in a cane-brake...
Shirley Temple taking a snort in her next picture was too much for W.C.T.U. President Mrs. D. Leigh Colvin to bear; she protested to the studio that youth everywhere might be inspired to do likewise. But the studio set her at ease; the drink would be something unthinkable-Scotch and bourbon mixed-and Shirley would spit it out in horror...
Ofttimes Haligonians took more devious routes to get a drink. They dropped in at smelly, slummy Grafton Street dives for a quick and illegal snort, or paid bootleggers anywhere from $8 to $20 for straight-from-the-still "Tiger Sweat...