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...vivid scenes of triumph and disaster. There is the occasion, soon after the success of Main Street, when Lewis' crisply arrogant first wife, Grace Hegger, was introduced at a party as "Mrs. Lewis." Said she: "Please, Mrs. Sinclair Lewis. Even my dentist says, 'Mrs. Sinclair Lewis, spit...
...Fleury's Ray." Present-day jetliners are already three times as fast as Kipling's night flyers, but his imaginative planes may soon have ray-driven descendants in space. Last week Republic Aviation Corp. demonstrated a "plasma pinch'' space engine that uses magnetic force to spit out a fierce blue flash of electrified particles- a 20th century version of Fleury...
Miller himself set the tone of the debates that have raged over it when he wrote in 1934: "This is not a book. This is libel, slander, defamation of character....No, this is a prolonged insult, a gob of spit in the face of Art, a kick in the pants to God, Man, Despite Time, Love, Beauty....what you will...
...eads and shaking them up and down in a sack. The children don't want to see that." Another housewife complained of cooking odors, "All that garlic or whatever it is," so unlike smells the English feel at home with, like boiled cabbage. Said a third: "They spit...
Constitutionally opposed to authority, Mauldin attacked the military caste system without mercy. "Them buttons wuz shot off when I took this town, sir," growls a slovenly Willie to a spit-and-polish rest-area lieutenant. "One more crack like that," snarls a private to a major, "an' you won't have yer job back after th' war." Inevitably, this kind of enlisted man's license landed Mauldin in trouble. It culminated in a personal confrontation with Lieut. General George S. Patton in Luxembourg...