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...variant of the "Do, Jesus!" found among oldtime Negroes in the South. The expression in full: "Do, Jesus, he'p me to pray...
Explosions of derision and disbelief immediatety followed publication of Dr. von Bremer's ideas in the U. S. Cockroaches have been blamed for causing cancer by no less a person than Nobel Prizewinner Johannes Fibiger of Denmark. Many a lesser light has offered a variant of the germ theory. Subtle irritants, chemical or mechanical, have been suggested. Likewise cancer has been attributed to nervous strain, city life, life itself, breakdown of individual body cells, degeneracy of the entire constitution...
...fact that Yugoslavia is said to be massing troops on the border to prevent the ingress of the Bulgarian radicals, most of whom are said of he anti-Yugoslav. By this time, the moves in a fascist coup d'etat have become so routined that the Yugoslav variant is more than welcome...
...Senator Borah's variant of this hoary statistic: 4% of the people control 95% of the wealth...
...career as the slave of hospitality. His whole life is told in terms of hotels even his emotional experiences through his marriage (Effie May is totally devoid of color), and his musings are extricably bound up with ice water, phones in every room, and room service. The only variant note is struck the character of Ora Weagle, the higbrow and pseudo-poet, whose weakeness and essential meanness are so completely unredeemed by any winning ability that Mr. Lewis has all too little difficulty in convincing his readers that soul of the practical American is absolutely more worthy than that...