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Whatever British cinemaudiences may think of Director Cummins' editorial viewpoint, bursts of applause, snorts of approval, murmurs of "Good show!" (the British equivalent of a rebel yell), indicate that they like his shorts...
Before the dispersal hut where his plane stood he had a patchy little grass plot with a sign on it: "Keep Off the Grass." He used to yell at anybody who stepped on his grass. When he took off he walked across a narrow path to his plane, but when he came back from a Big Do he was too excited to remember and his boys would trample all over the grass getting to his ship to talk about the flight. If Paddy had shot down a plane he would talk last, his brogue broadening with excitement and his fingers...
...chicken legs, hard-boiled eggs, Madeira. He "borrowed a detective story from Mme. Litvinoff and read it while eating her lovely caviar sandwiches all the way from Kuibyshev to Teheran. Every fifteen minutes she'd say, 'Do you know who did it yet?' I would yell over the sound of the motors, 'No, and don't tell...
...Texas Agricultural & Mechanical College might as well stand for Athletic & Military. In other days nine out of ten of its students played football on one of its many school teams; all but the bedridden turned out for "yell [not cheer] practice," its rough, tough, blacksmith-armed Aggie teams romped over opponents. And last week, of 699 graduates in the class of 1942, 565 went out with Army commissions; of the remaining 134, more than half have already signed for Army and Navy aviation. Texas A. & M. turns out more officers than West Point...
Seldom has a U.S. business firm taken such a smearing as Standard Oil Co. of New Jersey got last week. Assistant Attorney General Thurman Arnold swung the rubber hose while the Truman Committee held the victim. Before the company could even yell, it found itself blamed for the U.S. rubber shortage, slugged for playing along with the Axis. Senator Harry S. Truman had even shouted "Treason...