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While we were mulling over our highball about the New Order, the band struck up the Star Spangled Banner and we patriotically descended from our stool to face the flag...
...enjoys periodic crescendos of rage (against jazz, hot dogs, flash bulbs, etc.), makes a point of being nearly late at concerts. He plays a Baldwin piano, and wherever he goes he is attended by a sort of caddy, supplied by the Baldwin people to look after the piano, piano stool, pianist. Plaintively the caddy says: "It don't seem right." Nor does the caddy ever get the piano stool adjusted to suit Iturbi: "Wherever I put it, he don't like it. I have even measured the thing with a yardstick-bought the yardstick...
Like a boxer who is slammed before he can get off his stool, the Pacific Fleet had first to get itself up. From that time until the day when it can report its first victories over the Japanese, its role is primarily defensive. Its first victories may or may not come quickly. But until it can drive the Japanese out of the waters between Honolulu and the mainland, until it can recover the lifeline islands and secure them from further attack, it cannot exert its full force against the Japanese...
Sirs: When the British politicians and the Jewish exploiters finally get America where they want us-behind the eight ball-and the situation finally becomes apparent to the rabbit-brained masses, then all of you prostitute lickspittle congenital stool pigeons who now so smugly fawn on those elements that represent established wealth, power and authority, may find yourselves in the position of the Bat in Aesop's fable: kicked out and repudiated by both sides. Perhaps you think you will not suffer much inconvenience, at that, since in addition to the reputed characteristics of the bat, you also possess...
...Paramount urged a screen test on Ernest Hemingway for a part in For Whom the Bell Tolls, ∽∽ "An airplane factory" barred a visit from Susan Hayward because time lost for ogling would cost $20,000. ∽∽ A Hollywood soda fountain put a plaque on a stool reading "On This Stool Sat Lana Turner When She Was Discovered...