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...pending visit, but no one said just when she would arrive. Even when the royal red carpet was rolled out in Paddington Station, no official winked significantly. Said a loitering cabbie: "Naow, they told me the Queen was giving away chocolates." When the station's news vendor finally caught a glimpse of her, he let out a surprised murmur: "Well, who would have thought...
...Panache was a floor walker. Like his crony, The Navet, he was generally detested (all the conservatives in The Last Time I Saw Paris are detestable). "To keep M. Panache in a perpetual hell of suspicion and rage," the chestnut vendor kept whispering to him that the proprietor of the Hotel du Caveau "rented Panache's room now and then for twenty-minute periods to streetwalkers who did not draw the color line." The street was delighted when he contracted the barber's itch. >M. de Malancourt, a wealthy gentleman, had an "astonished camera artist take...
Steve Vasilakos, peanut vendor in front of the White House for 30 years, moved around the corner to make room for the war. His old spot has been blocked off to traffic as a safety precaution...
...Austin, Tex., a tamale vendor who cried, "Hot tamales-and that ain't all," was fined for bootlegging, changed his cry to "Hot tamales-and that...
...Disney character, Dumbo discovers what his ears are good for-flying. This time he takes off from his window high in the burning building like an angry dive-bomber, turning, banking, looping the loop, and finally machine-gunning the other performers with peanuts sucked into his trunk from the vendor's cart...