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...when Harry Truman appeared. Later, they took their positions in two long lines on either side of his car-sedate-looking fellows, carrying canes-and walked beside the car down Capitol Hill. It was a brisk, 46-minute walk and everyone made it except George Hardy, who got a stitch in his side, and "Deadman" Riley, who just got tired. The others all felt fine, although afterwards they began to stiffen up a bit, sitting around in the chill breeze...
Among the sayings Moore decided on were "Fools Rush In . . ." (in the window a little lady braves a lion's den to win a fox furpiece), and "A Stitch in Time . . ." (a doll-size girl sews a rhinestone on to a life-size silk stocking). Another proverb, "People Who Live in Glass Houses" called for two figures under a glass bell in the center of a residential square (see cut). The giant hands accusing them from neighboring doors and windows were meant to advertise Bonwit's gloves...
...large piece of tongue fell into his hand, and while the flabbergasted police interrogator stared, Politics calmly wrapped it in his handerchief and settled back in his chair. Doctors tried fruitlessly to stitch the tongue back together...
Although "Acres and Pains" lacks the speed and lightness to place it among his earlier productions, there is enough excellent material to give Perelman fans a small, if not wholly satisfying, stitch in the side...
Daly: "I see a man...come out from the trees. Now others come running....They haven't got a stitch on!...The Admiral is coming ashore....[He] takes the standard and plants it in the sand....Now he kneels...bends to kiss the sand...