Word: yawns
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...their stature is tiny but the people are suspicious to the point of comedy. So when it was revealed last week that 13 British subjects had been arrested as spies, the nation had a spy scare which made U. S. alarm over the fifth column look like a bored yawn. The whole nation began snooping. The Army issued a manifesto urging cooperation "in purging Japan of all espionage." Newspapers published hints, threats, alarms. Someone suggested that a British oil company had an agent at every filling station. The dowdy Japanese-British Luncheon Club was accused of being a nest...
...least 38. Part revue, part musicomedy, part minstrel show, it tells, season after season, of the adventures of two Negroes, short, coal-black Silas Green and tall, tannish Lilas Bean. For years the show never bothered to change its plot. When the public finally started to yawn, Silas and Lilas found they had better vary their mishaps each season...
...that M.G.M. felt so duty-bound to show off their surplus capital. Such ridiculous extravaganzas as the "Munchkin Village" and the "Emerald Palace" call for a long and lusty yawn. Ten such scenes aren't worth one of Judy Garland singing "Over the Rainbow" against a two-bit photo-drop, or Bert Lahr chewing his tail. As a matter of fact, the none-too-distinguished cast has run away with the show, leaving the lavish sets sitting around without much to do. Bert Lahr may go rolling down through the annals of film history as an all-time high...
...warfare of the gods-as a week of history to stand beside the week that Cortes first invaded Mexico, as a horror story terrifying enough to blur the strongest mind-in all ways last week's news piled sensation on sensation until its followers turned away with a yawn...
Confusing moral which uplifted youngsters might deduct from this camel's tale was: Never be bumptious but never fail to be bumptious when you ought to be. Chances seemed even that many a young reader, stifling a yawn and an out-of-step feeling that Author Boyle's camel was not only a dromedary but an allegory, and too consciously cute, would leave the book where their less jaded elders would be sure to find and enjoy...