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...original screen play is attributed to Mahatma Kane Jeeves, an obvious pseudonym to those who know that Fields writes his own lines. His own character-a small-town tosspot accidentally given the job of cop at the local bank-is labeled Egbert Sousé (pronounced Soo-zay). His small town is called Lompoc-a coincidence which may cause some embarrassment to citizens of Lompoc, Calif. When Mr. Sousé drinks a pony of straight whiskey, he always demands a water chaser, which he uses as a finger bowl; with each drink he requires a fresh chaser, because "I never like...
...churches, many of them flimsy as eggshells, suffered badly. A soo-pound bomb embedded itself deep in the street near St. Paul's Cathedral, which sits unsteadily on foundations of wet sand. The delayed action of such bombs as this and the first one which damaged Buckingham Palace was regulated not by a timing mechanism, which would not survive the bomb's fall, but by the slow action of acid eating through a metal plate. After four days the St. Paul's bomb was finally removed by a "suicide squad" and exploded in a marsh outside...
...Luck, Wis., day before the Midvale smash, a Soo Line train drove into a school bus at a grade crossing, killed the woman driver and three children, critically injured five others...
Thither from Chicago went Dr. Tenerowicz in 1923, because he heard it was a "promising city" where thousands of Poles "needed guidance." Dr. Ten was a one-time breaker-boy from the coal mines of Punxsutawney, Pa. (pronounced Punk-soo-tawney). He had studied medicine at Loyola University, served in the Army Medical Corps. Eloquent and energetic, combining politics with doctoring like Michigan's late Royal S. Copeland, who became Senator from New York, Dr. Ten was only five years in becoming Hamtramck's mayor...
...Americans: Soo-day-ten, Prog...