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...made my marriage look ridiculous"), Sanders took the afternoon off to pack his bags and leave his Hollywood home. Said he: "My wife asked me to get out, and I am in the process of doing so. I have been discarded like a squeezed lemon." For reporters covering the spat, Zsa Zsa (rhymes with maharajah) had a simple statement: "A woman has the right to quarrel with her husband in the afternoon because it is so much fun to make up in the evening...
...more telltale bits of underwear from the Franchot Tone-Barbara Payton-Tom Neal muss-up than did Florabel Muir, Hollywood tattler for the New York Daily News and the Los Angeles Mirror. Last week Actor Tone, who lost the fist fight but won the girl, took revenge. He spat squarely in Florabel's face...
...must be canceled and will be, in a very short time," he said, and the crowd cheered wildly. Al Midoa, weekly newspaper of Nahas Pasha's Wafdist Party, roared: "We do not believe that the Egyptian nation is less valorous or less courageous than the Persian nation which spat in the face of imperialism...
...settled as servants accused former masters, employees denounced past employers, kinfolk bore witness against each other. The terror scorned the traditional Confucian concept of decent human relationship. Older people, heretofore respected for their years, were led through streets to prisons or to execution, and on the way Communist youth spat at them. In one Kwangtung province town a grey-haired man was forced to crawl on his knees, kowtow to groups of Red workers...
...torch looked like an ordinary oxyacetylene cutter, but its bright white flame (burning powdered aluminum in oxygen) ate into a wall of concrete as though it were candle wax. A second torch, burning fluorine in hydrogen, spat a tiny blue flame that could melt the concrete even faster. Either one, explained scientists of Temple University's Research Institute last week, could knife through any substance known...