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...Nemo's. Pumpkin seeds have been hard to come by. These times of scarcity. Perhaps some pumpkin pie, instead. Never knew anyone used the rest of the pumpkin. Compliments of the house, sir. Fine day? Yes, yes, indeed. One cup of coffee and then out into the whirl of life and excitement on the streets of the city...
...hurricane is a great doughnut of wind and cloud that revolves (in the northern hemisphere) in a counterclockwise direction. The winds that race toward and round the calm, low-pressure center of the storm are fed with air from the high-pressure areas outside the whirl...
Harry Truman himself, talking to a roomful of Democrats in San Francisco (see The Presidency), gave the first wild whirl. "It is fantastic what can happen with the use of the new weapons that are now under construction in this country," he ad-libbed solemnly, "not only the one which we all fear the most, but there are some weapons which are fantastic in their operation." Most of Washington regarded this as just another Truman ad-liberty, but one reporter dug up North Dakota's garrulous Milton Young, a member of the Senate committee which had been considering...
These characters whirl around the edges of The Limit like the fringe on a parasol. But at the center, holding the story up, stands Romer Wyburn, one of those proverbial Britons who scarcely ever open their mouths. "I thought he was a strong silent man, a man with an orange up his sleeve," complains his flighty wife (whom he adores), "but I've never seen the orange." Romer silently ignores her affair with a playboy until, reaching "the limit," he suddenly fetches out of his sleeve not an orange but a sledge hammer. One blow from Romer...
Last week, at a whirl of parties in Manhattan's Plaza Hotel, Singer celebrated its 100th anniversary. In 1,200 Singer Sewing Centers throughout the U.S. and more than 5,000 spotted around the world from Hyderabad to Heidelberg, 80,000 Singer employees also observed the centennial of a company that has done as much to create an industrial and home revolution as any in the world...