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...Force and Navy fighters flashed down the blue spring sky in tribute. A task group from the Atlantic Fleet came in, spilled out its bluejackets to march chummily down Fifth Avenue with the doughs. In Army Day celebrations all over the U.S., the armed forces put on a spit-&-polish show of unity...
...that he is out in the open, Congressman Rankin is going to have relatively smooth sailing. Most Senators or Representatives would rather spit on Old Glory than be caught in the act of voting against the Veteran, even if they know that the Rankin plan would make the federal budget a grotesque joke. On Tuesday, for example, the House voted twice to chop the enacting clause out of the pension bill--which would have squelched it--but when Rankin demanded a roll call vote, the opposition vanished as if by magic. The enacting clause was left...
...Wild Plot. Then the pros-Bill O'Dwyer and Tammany Hall-looked Clen up & down without great passion, spit on their hands and went to work. Before they were even half through they had made Clen Ryan look bad. In the dead of night Bill O'Dwyer summoned newsmen to City Hall, himself broke the wildest wiretapping story to hit the town since Justice Aurelio was overheard thanking Frankie Costello for his nomination (TIME...
...condition of happy disorder. Shakespeare's plays had been murderously rewritten; King Lear had a happy ending and Macbeth had been refitted with low-comedy witches. While one actor rumbled through his speeches, another might nod to his friends in the audience, fix his buttons or ostentatiously spit on the stage. Audiences were noisy and quarrelsome, and privileged dandies would stand in the wings loudly gossiping. Occasionally, a drunken beau would stray on to the stage to kiss the leading lady...
...thank the benevolent mistress of an Evansville sporting house for furnishing them "a comfortable home." When their father was trying to get established in some new town, Dreiser's sisters would suddenly appear with young men of tainted reputation, parading down the streets in flashy finery, with spit curls, rouged cheeks, patent-leather shoes and broad-brimmed hats with ostrich plumes...