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...couldn’t go to a more deserving nose-thumber at the establishment,” Navasky said...
...Fridolin himself. The grubby get-up expresses one side of Fridolin's appeal-the wistful urchin, the Chaplinesque underdog who fights for causes that can never succeed, and makes love to girls he can never win. The slingshot expresses the other half of his appeal - the impudent nose-thumber who (at Bob Hope speed) lets fly at bingo, dance bands, radio advertising, women in war plants - and the Mackenzie King Government...
...receive an authorized R. C. T. emblem as a visible roadside high-sign, and a certified identification card bearing on the reverse a legal waiver releasing any motorist kind enough to offer a lift from liability in case of accident. Encouraged by the Roman Catholic faculty at St. Ambrose, Thumber Fiese plans to enlist 800 more colleges. Says he: "We believe our fundamental idea is sound and . . . that our organization will benefit society. ... I have a girl friend in Beloit and visit there weekends. That isn't the reason I thought of this plan...
...despair the League's Seán Lester penned a report saying that Nose-Thumber Greiser's Senate had refused even to answer questions by the High Commissioner as to what was supposed to be the constitutional basis for their arbitrary Nazi decrees. Unanswered Mr. Lester then took his wife and dog fishing...
...bull-necked German Air Minister and Prussian Premier General Hermann Wilhelm Göring, who makes Poland one of his Nazi specialties, dearly loves to shoot wild boar at the hunting lodge of Poland's President. Within 24 hours the German Press, which had been lauding Nose-Thumber Greiser, slued around. It was suddenly discovered-or at least printed-that Adolf Hitler had been "furious" about the crude nose-thumbing, so lacking in "good tone." Thus rapped, Danzig's Greiser made most conciliatory and reassuring declarations to the Polish representative in Danzig, left spunky little Warsaw more than...