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...known to Frenchmen for nearly 30 years, did him no political harm, may indeed have increased confidence in his ability to give leadership to an important French institution. Now, however, with Marriage still selling like wildfire. Premier Blum wishes people would forget he ever wrote the book. The national tittering is beginning to get on his nerves. What Frenchmen titter at is the self-portrait of youthful Poet-Journalist-Socialist Blum sowing his wild oats. What is not so titillating or so new. but only a little on the old-fashioned side of Gallic good sense, is his sex theory...
...President, cigaret holder in hand, sat back, puffed out his chest robustly, grinned at the newshawks. What, he demanded, did they think? The answer was a self-conscious titter...
Famed for his "definitions," always good for a titter in Old Bailey, was the late, great Acid Drop. His definition of a lunatic: "A lunatic sometimes thinks he is the Lord Chancellor; sometimes he thinks he is a fried egg and cannot sit down except on a piece of toast...
President Roosevelt rocked back in his swivel chair, lighted a cigaret, jestingly asked the assembled reporters if they had any news for him. When the consequent titter died down, a voice asked if he had reached any conclusions about NRA. He had and for the next hour he proceeded to give them to the Press, not as a straight quotable interview, but as an indirect monolog addressed to the nation at large. Though, by this technical device, the President was relieved of black-&-white accountability for all he said, the 200 newshawks were able to reconstruct from their notes...
...Eastern Passenger Agent for the Norfolk & Western Railway Co., played the Mendelssohn Concerto with the National Symphony in Washington. Gloria is a wispy little girl who wears big hair ribbons and oily black corkscrew curls. She took so long to tune her violin that the audience started to titter. But the feeling rapidly changed as the Concerto got under way. Gloria was not only technically expert but her playing had a simple persuasive quality that touched the audience deeply. Father and Mother Perkins are making a pianist of their son, Clemmett Birdsong Perkins...