Word: swallowers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...steady audience made up largely of: 1) cultists -the kind of people who (depending on their age) have seen every Hamlet from Booth's, or Forbes-Robertson's, or Barrymore's, to Maurice Evans'; 2) seekers after the "worthwhile," who dutifully imbibe Shakespeare as they swallow Beethoven and spinach; 3) school children, offspring...
...times its apparent value. The astonished moppets' beady eyes grew even wider as the camel's Arab owner not only turned down this princely offer but refused to sell at any price-and was promptly arrested. Disemboweling the old camel, police found it had been forced to swallow zinc cylinders containing narcotics by Arab smugglers who recently have been driving a surprising number of decrepit camels from Palestine into Egypt. Flushed with success, the Egyptian police promptly disemboweled 18 more old camels, recovered a total of 164 pounds of narcotics, reported their coup to the League of Nations...
...intended to be taken seriously and whether these believe-it-or-nots are verified with your usual care. In particular, being seriously interested in the homing instincts of birds and animals, I did not miss in the issue of TIME dated Aug. 14, the items labeled "Mother" (fleet Italian swallow) and "Toad" (Boston or Bust). Does the Miscellany editor have a pending file that will remind him to find out whether Teddy actually gets home again in April 1941? (Such a smart toad might reason that he is better off in California-his master would just take him to some...
Last week, viewing their respective prospects at the hands of Hitler in the light of his super deal with the Soviets, Hungary and Rumania were trying desperately to be friends. Lately it has seemed clear enough that if Hungary did get Transylvania back from Rumania, Germany might swallow both on its inevitable way to get at oil-drilling, grain-bearing Rumania. Last week, with Hitler going hammer & tongs after Poland, Hungary's historic ally, Hungary seemed a likely next under the hammer. With this in prospect, worrying over long-lost Transylvania seemed pointless indeed...
Count Ciano could guess what the three had to say, and he obviously did not want to hear it: he must do all in his power to stop the rolling stone before it gathered an avalanche to swallow them all, as Mari of Peace Mussolini did this time last year when he persuaded Hitler to call off his Army before Munich. Count Ciano's answer, heartily concurred in by Premier Mussolini...