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...Gentlemen-Now I suppose that if I do not write and tell you that I will stop using the name 'Statler' in my advertising . . . you will make trouble for me. That will be an awful hard thing for you to do for several reasons, viz., as follows and to wit: there is a substantial mortgage on this place. I do not keep any checking account, holding my cash in my left and right pants pockets and keeping my accounts on a clear pine board which I burn on March 16, after having made a true and honest accounting...
...Fanatic Koch propounded an interesting ornithological theory: that chaffinches have different accents in different parts of the world. Playing the song of a British chaffinch, German-accented Dr. Koch said: "Ant now, as you vill see by my next record, zee German chaffinch, unlike zee Kent chaffinch, finishes op viz a sound like 'wurz debur.' " Sure enough...
...polio right after he was picked as the best baseball player in the diocese of Brooklyn. At least 6 feet tall, his body was conspicuously atrophied. To pick an athlete in preference to this boy, or one like him, would be to continue a time-honored American custom, viz., discriminating unfairly against a human being because he could not overcome the crippling effects of disease. Everyone wants to help the poor athlete, but few consider the physically handicapped, than to the athlete! I wonder if those who extol the "sentiment" of school spirit can work up some sentiment...
...readers sounded like an eyewash or a new breakfast food (Oculo, Focal, Imagec, Visray, Telio, Vix). Others sounded like nothing on earth (Lookies, Peeps, Scan, Vudio, Luksee, Eyeviews). The Daily Express thought that a few revealed "outrageous ingenuity" (e.g., Vizema, Rad-E-Eye, C.-U., Look-Hear, Radi-Viz...
...Viz., Harlow ought to cut more ice than Prexy James B. Conant...