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...deal of pedantic nonsense whose prissiness would drive a climbing Milquetoast to despair, as he struggled always to say "telephone" (instead of "phone") and "whiskey and soda" (instead of "highball"). "TOMATO," says Author Fenwick firmly, "is better pronounced 'to-mah-to,' as ... it comes from the Spanish Toma-te,' which is pronounced 'tomahtay.'' This is a much hotter potato* than Author Fenwick seems to realize...
...compacts. Home builders now have trouble getting pumps, electric motors, bathtubs, copper tubing, brass fittings, light fixtures. A good share of the extra dollars that U.S. consumers have to spend will go into bigger purchases of food (of which the U.S. has enough, ex cept for temporary shortages like toma toes and salmon, bought up by the Army and the British). More will go for "soft" consumers' goods like clothes (the U.S. has a 9,000,000-bale cotton surplus...
...Throughout the Provinces tease acts drew big crowds. Theatre marquees were bright with electric signs such as "STRIP PLEASE," "STRIP AHOY," "STRIP STRIP HOORAY." One of the most popular acts featured a knife-thrower who stood his fully dressed partner up against a panel and then threw knives and toma hawks which literally peeled her clothes...
...Chinese officials charged each other with having violated the four-hour truce in various ways. As the shells began to scream again, as the roar of bombing planes played its soft prelude to the thunder of bombs, act II began, and the first actor to speak was Rear-Admiral Toma Uematsu. commander of the Japanese naval landing forces...