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...when some swans disappeared, there were ugly rumors that black-marketeers were conking them with clubs and selling them to shady restaurants where they were dished up as geese. Since then, under the increased vigilance of Thameside bobbies, the swans have sailed up & down, unafraid, wherever the whim took them...
...barefaced, contemptible lie. The editors of the Herald-American ought to be ashamed of such irresponsible journalism ... It is an attempt to deceive children . . . None of these things are true and the editors of the Herald-American know they aren't true. They are slavishly following a whim of their big boss...
...glib and determinedly jolly M.C. named Walter Kiernan. Typical guest: Actress Sarah Churchill, who was allowed to tell the plot of her current Broadway show, Gramercy Ghost. In exchange, Kiernan asked how her father, Winston Churchill, felt about her becoming an actress ("he thought it was a whim...
...quality than the average production of the undergraduate editors. Dahl has an unfunny one on the Watch and Ward, and there is an illegibly signed cartoon that picks off another one of television's sitting ducks. A couple of drawings seem to have appeared in the issue either by whim or mistake: a gnome creeping toward a toadstool which has a naked woman lying atop it, and a poorly-drawn baseball pitcher winding up on page 28 to throw to an unequally uninspiring batter on page...
...common complaint of students in the big courses like Bio 1 is that too much of your mark is determined by a "section man's whim...