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Holmes put down his teacup, filled his pipe with shag and commenced...
...Sacrilege! Infamy! Libel!" I slashed the teacup to the floor. "Good grief, Holmes! Even during those lonely days in Afghanistan, I never so much as glanced at a subaltern...
...British press competed for the most apt description of Britain's latest show of power. Among the entries: "the Bay of Piglets," "the Paper Blitzkrieg" and "War in a Teacup." I SAY CHAPS, cried a banner headline in the London Evening News, THE NATIVES ARE FRIENDLY. In the Commons, a Tory rose and, with broad irony, asked Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs Secretary Michael Stewart: "Will the right honorable gentleman convey to the Prime Minister the congratulations of the House on at last taking on somebody of his own size?" Harold Wilson had not sent troops into Nigeria, or settled...
...nice girl." Adds National Distillers Vice President-General Manager Raymond Herrmann: "We don't shock with low-cut gowns, but we don't use nuns either." In rather startling exception to this cautious approach, Cluny Scotch shows an obviously thirsting elderly woman pouring her Cluny into a teacup...
Giving a hound the once-over makes you think of both Jim Ryun's slender power and Mohammad Ali's dense bulk. Ribs stick out all over, but so do muscles. Twiggy bigjointed legs. Deer eyes, Teacup muzzles sheathed in leather. Deadleaf ears...