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...noble name be subject to veiled insult and subtle abuse? Sir, in the game of Gleek the knave of trumps is called TOM! An oyster's liver is sneeringly called a TOMalley! Why not Peter for the Peepers, Terry for the little girls who break windows and thumb their noses, Bert for the blind musicians of Dixie, Ted for the titmice, Timothy for the cats, Tobias for the Turkeys, Louis or Louie for the long guns? And doesn't everyone who has heard of tom-tom know that it doesn...
...order to avoid misunderstandings, I wish to declare that I personally, as Dictator, called Parliament together and cooperated with it constitutionally, even though I could have crushed the whole outfit under my thumb like a vile worm. The Deputies behave in Parliament as if they were in a saloon. Only the Ministers must act respectably while the Deputies bawl and act like swine and renegades...
...Most Catholic Majesty, King Alfonso XIII, now admittedly under the dictator's heavy thumb, continued to evince no sign of distaste for General Primo de Rivera...
...fatal ailment upon her beloved foster-father. When God ignores her challenge that He restore this good man's life, she believes herself indeed a witch, and sets herself weirdly to learning the trade. Straws and hairs and fingernails are stuff for fantastic poppets; Ahab, the neighbor Thumb's bull is fit to make a virile familiar. In answer to her prayers that the Prince of Darkness send her a tutor in the black arts, there appears nightly a demon disguised in the swarthy skin and gold hooped earrings of a pirate...
...magazines. The face in the copy was Harry Langdon's. His business of being simply darling consists of three gestures: 1) staring blankly like a little boy who has just found half a worm in the apple he is eating; 2) picking his teeth with his thumb and index finger; 3) waddling as if his pants were about to fall down...