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...more than three hours, the House resounded with arguments about peanuts. Illinois Republican Charles Vursell charged that the peanut advocates were trying to "deny the children of America the amount of peanuts they want to eat." Georgia's Representative Elijah ("Tic") Forrester snapped back: "The truth of the matter is that the children of the country today are getting more candy and more luxuries than ever before." Boston Democrat Thomas P. O'Neill said that peanuts have "no more right to be called [a basic crop] than cranberries or carnations." Replied Tic Forrester: "If the peanut program...
...wasn't born in a log cabin and he doesn't wear a coonskin cap, but somehow he manages to give the impression that he was and does." Some of Republican Hopkins' support ers enthusiastically rushed off in the wrong direction, however, creating a rus tic caricature of a campaign around his homespun look. Ten teams of G.O.P. cam paign workers lined up along street curbs to display rhymed signs advertising Sam Hopkins, like Burma-Shave. An octette of Republican ladies, wearing coonskin caps, trooped around town chanting a six-stanza ode to Sam Hopkins, written...
...instance, he cannot tell a dog from a fox, but he can find his way through the city and draw a floor plan of his house from memory. At work he can identify only three colleagues: one very tall and thin, one with two moles, one with a facial tic. The rest tell him their names, point to the tools they want him to pass. In one parlor game, J.S. excels. When the husbands sit under the table and try to identify their wives by their feet, he simply tickles each pair of feet until he recognizes his wife...
...revenge (Mendès replaced him during the Geneva Conference), set down his briefcase, happily opened a newspaper. He was followed by 76-year-old Paul Reynaud, who sat in the fifth row, his old hooded eyes staring straight in front and his head nodding constantly with a nervous tic. The galleries were jammed with spectators, among them Mendès' pretty wife. Outside stretched a long line of people hoping to be admitted to the few public seats...
...Hollywood's older, more sought-after men have concluded, from time to time, that they were just the boys destined to discover and unlock the real Grace. Each time, Grace has resisted unlocking, though whenever her father reads in a column of a new "roman tic attachment," the family gets alarmed...