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...VITA...
Pinoculus thinks this is a wonderful life ("0 quam dulcis vita!"), until he is turned into a donkey. Later, after being thrown into the sea to drown and being swallowed by a terrible shark ("Ehi, mihi misero," he wails in the black stomach), he finally gets back home and, as a reward for his general goodness, turns into a boy. "Oh," says Pinoculus, "how ridiculous I was when I was a puppetQuam deridiculus apparui, donee pupulus fueram...
...renditions of love songs from "Liebeslieder Walzer" by Brahms, the Crimson exhibited feeling and restraint which directly rested upon the use of covered-tone throughout. Similarly in the treatment of "A Lieta Vita" in the Gastoldi trie the Club's controlled vocal quality, which had to overshadow the same mechanical lack of sponaneity apparent in the opening number, "Glorius Appollo," triumphantly impressed itself...
...score of ripped fenders were mailed in (though the Odells insist that no motorist has ever cracked up because of the signs), and Burma-Vita duly paid...
...signs became so popular and so many jingles were sent in to Burma-Vita that Allan Odell gave up writing them. The company also bought a few contributions from such professional wordsters as Berton Braley, Ted Cook, J. P. McEvoy. But most of the jingles which Odell rapidly spread across the U.S. came in as the result of Burma-Vita's offer to pay $100 for every one used. Some of the contributions Burma-Vita would like to use but doesn't lest they offend public taste. One of the more printable rejects...