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Said the Daily Express: "After the Churchill thunderburst comes the Butler rainbow." Bankers in the City grumbled that cabinet ministers ought to speak from the same script. Actually, Churchill was trying to stir the home folks, Butler to reassure the rest of the world, and both were in a way right-Butler in saying that the decline has not worsened, Churchill in saying that the situation is still perilous...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Sounding the Alarm | 6/23/1952 | See Source »

...starred lampoon sympathizer died from grief and pity as he beheld the sweeping avalanche of CRIMSON tallies pulverize lampoon hopes, annihilate lampoon hurlers, and bury the puny lampoon total of two runs under a score far beyond the wildest aspirations of mere mortal batters and base runners. After the thunderburst of journalistic prowess had finally spent itself, after the wreckage had been cleared away enough for the umpires to discover the battered remains of what had once been lampy's proud diamond hope it was discoved that the CRIMSON had amassed 23 runs, while the lampoon total stood right where...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Belated Batting Barrage Blasts Buoyant Bravado of Comic Cohorts--Crimson Conquers by Conventional Count | 5/19/1927 | See Source »

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