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...What did you have for supper?" she asked the boy. He whispered, "Cheese and crackers, and a soda...
...purser was just reaching for a brandy and soda when he heard a sound like firecrackers exploding. A 120-ft. ship, bristling with guns, had slipped out of the darkness and was raking the Wing Sang with bullets. "Pirates!" someone cried. Captain Ronald G. Stanton ordered full speed ahead, but when the pirate ship pumped shells into the Wing Sang from two Oerlikon guns, he saw that he could not get away...
...Alumnus Donald Russell is a respected Carolinian, a onetime soda jerker and salesman who won first honors at both the college and the law school, rose to be one of the top lawyers in the state. In 1930 he joined the firm of Nicholls, Wyche and Byrnes, eventually became Byrnes's assistant when Byrnes was Secretary of State. The two men later went into partnership again, separated only after the gubernatorial election...
Dean Lyons' prescription: brush the teeth (salt and soda will do for a dentifrice) within "split minutes" after every meal, because sugar left in the mouth changes into acids within half an hour at most. "Carrying toothbrushes around ought to be just as acceptable as carrying combs, lipstick and powder...
...maid, a cheap Cinderella with no hope of a pumpkin"), Lana moved to Los Angeles with her mother, who went to work in a beauty parlor. One sunny morning, when Lana was a lush 15, she sneaked out of Hollywood High School to play hooky at a Sunset Boulevard soda fountain. A man walked up and said: "How would you like to be in pictures?" Surprisingly, the proposition was on the level...