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Passenger facilities at airports are usually inadequate or worse. Chicago's is "a slum. Chewing gum, orange peel, papers and cigar butts strew the floor around the stacks of baggage. ... To rest the thousands there are exactly 28 broken-down leather seats. One must line up even for the rest rooms...
Between the implacable factions writhed the impotent moderates. Cried Chungking's independent Ta Rung Pao: "The corpses of those who have starved to death strew the roads. People eat grass roots and tree bark. . . . Troops are sucking the blood out of villagers. . . . Local officials are making their lives bitter. . . . What makes our hearts ache most is this: all China needs peace, without which we shall not survive. If ambitious persons insist on more adventures, we shall all perish...
...dinner served on gold plate. Queen Victoria, a guest, remarked that it was too extravagant for her. Other royal guests included King George V, King Edward VIII, King George VI. The house was so vast that, the story goes, guests were given packets of wafers to strew along the corridors showing the way back to their rooms. A guest once rang the servant's bell on Saturday; it was Monday before his man appeared. During one Doncaster race week, a butler walked 54 miles in four days, merely attending his household duties...
...when something unusual happened at one of their parties-as, for example, when Park's pretty wife Lynne, doing a dance with a pair of pots for a bra, lost her pots. That was a bit off the pattern. But it was all right for Peter Bailey to strew the living room with toilet paper. That was a tradition. It was also part of the pattern for Peter to find Park kissing Peter's wife. Peter remarked cheerily, "Some fun, eh, boss?" and strolled back to the dance...
...marshes where aging, rouged Miss Fiske (Isobel Elsom) is enjoying the fruits of hard work in the world's two oldest professions. Her dark, bonneted housekeeper (admirably played by Flora Robson) is saddled with two potty sisters, and tries to billet them on Miss Fiske. When the loonies strew her parlor with seaweed and dead birds, Miss Fiske bids them be off; but being penniless as well as potty, they have nowhere to be off to. In order to give the girls a home, the desperate housekeeper does her mistress...