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...Trahan's act (he was lately in The Second Little Show) consists in messing with a huge wad of chewing gum while he plays the piano and is mauled by Miss Eukona Cameron when she is not singing. Last week Miss Cameron did not tear off quite so many of Mr. Trahan's outer clothes as usual. But the chewing gum oozed and blobbered from Mr. Trahan's lips, was stuck under the piano, retrieved, chewed, stuck again, smeared on the piano keys, frantically stretched in all directions, finally gathered together for the supreme effort of mirth...
...they as individuals have not, and that he as an individual has, obeyed the command: "Sell all thou hast, and give it to the poor." He built up as a young man one of the most lucrative legal practices in India, then devoted all his possessions except the last wad or two of rags to succoring the needy. During the Boer war he turned the other cheek to Great Britain by organizing Indian Red Cross units, served with such passive, non-violent gallantry at the front that he wrung a medal for bravery from the Empire. For his pro-British...
While priestly lips formed the Latin syllables of a majestic chant, a small wad of chewing gum issued from the lips of Signor de Palois became imperceptibly affixed to the tip of his whalebone...
...like you, young man. I think we'll get along first rate together." He arose and as he departed took out a wad of bills, flipped five $100 notes to the painter...
...chief accountant in a government office in Moscow, one Philip Stephanovitch Prohcroff, gets unaccountably drunk the night before pay day, aided by the office porter and the cashier, young Ivan. Next morning they find .themselves, with a large wad of government money, and in a most regrettable condition, on the train to Leningrad. Horrified, they immediately get drunk again. Never quite sober, always refusing to face the fact, they wander about Leningrad from hotel to nightclub, from the city to the country, and finally, in despairing, shaky soberness, return to Moscow and jail. A typical scene...