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...Americans to that of the European peasant. . . . The starvation and death of several million Europeans is more to be desired than our contribution of $400 million to an international relief fund which would be used to fatten up the Balkan armies so they might be in a position to spit on us and thus start World...
...Crystal. Because he can never find his way in the big cinemansions, "idiotic labyrinth of premieres, first runs," etc., Grierson prefers his neighborhood Crystal. ". . . By the time a film gets to the Crystal, the spit & polish have gone, the confidence trick of presentation and ballyhoo is an old damp squib of months ago, and Lost Horizon, Mr. Deeds, and the Hoot Gibsons, they all come even at last on the billboards. They have to talk across the hard floors and waste spaces of the peanuts to be good, with nothing to warm them except what is inside themselves, and that...
...chocolate-cream soldier," again Shaw's realist among a group of romantic faddists, provides the tongue with which the hirsute wit is able to spit his epigrams on man, war, and the state of things. Duvey, wagging the tongue weakly on this stage, managers, from time to time, to reiterate--in slightly more colorful idiom--that "diseretion is the better part of valor" and that "he who fights and runs away..." The play might to disregarded in favor of its preface, which, unfortunately, was not circulated beforehand...
Dennett expressed hope that the ministers of the nations could arrive at a work-able solution through their three point system which he outlined: 1. First spit in each others eyes. 2. Then question the paternity of the opposing faction. 3. Then settle down and settle...
...party colleagues were annoyed with him for taking too much of the limelight in Paris. Parliamentary committees were mad at him for failure to report home before taking .Austria's first major foreign policy decision. When he faced Parliament last week, the delegates did not exactly spit on him, but it was a close-thing. Gruber managed to keep his job by the skin of his teeth...