Word: digressions
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...Having given you some idea of our progress," said Cecil Harmsworth King, "I would like to digress." Then, before the annual meeting of stockholders in London last week, the proprietor of the world's largest publishing house, the Mirror Group (London Daily Mirror, Sunday Pictorial, plus 220 other periodicals), took a telling swipe at freedom of the press-British style. Said King...
...roadsters, languorous blondes, scotch whiskeys, rainy nights and attendant mackintoshes, muggings, pluggings, and gratifying resolutions as any of the epics of Bogie's prime. Lamentably, he is not in such a condition today; he is the sort of man the People could use in the White House. But I digress...
...Oysters. In his lively chronicle The Age and Stage of Harrigan and Hart, Author E. J. (for Ely Jacques) Kahn Jr. (The Army Life) loses no chance to digress on the New York of the '70s and '80s, when the city had open farmland, picnickers rode barges to Coney Island, and 300 Episcopal delegates on a three-week convention put away 80,000 oysters. Part biography, part social comedy, Author Kahn's book is a diverting and nostalgic nosegay thrown to the past Manhattan's lower East Side was so strongly Irish when Edward Green Harrigan...
...slower, we digress more, there's more tittle-tattle." says Impresario Maurice Winnick. Winnick bought What's My Line? (along with Mutual's quiz show, Twenty Questions) and sold it to the BBC, although some Britons insist that What's My Line? is derived from a 1946 BBC show called What's in a Face...
...shining one day last week, which, in itself is a notable event in Boston. But we digress. Two student officers from California were overheard remarking about this unusual occurrence, and one of them, in a truly democratic spirit, observed how delightful it was to have the sun shining. "Yes" replied his unbonding compatriot, "but the trouble is that here in Boston we're 3000 miles farther away from...