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...that jobless Britons between 16 and 65 whose earnings never averaged more than $25 per week receive the cash that is their due "as a matter of right and decency" providing they make bona fide efforts to get to work. This makes Lord Betterton the stern official Santa Claus of some 17,000,000 subjects of George V. Said Santa Betterton. "We are setting up no soulless machine. ... If the jobless man has been fortunate enough to save any money, he is not expected to consume his savings before being entitled to relief...
Nash redesigned its three lines with an eye to riding quality, shoving the motor ahead and synchronizing springs. Standard on the Ambassador but optional on its other lines is what Nash calls a "Santa Claus gear-because it delivers something for nothing." The Santa Claus gear is an overdrive for high-speed cruising...
...have just found out there is no Santa Claus and since you are the next best person, I thought I would write to you and ask for a plaid dress...
...parents' neighbors. Careful of their daughter's dignity, the Temples insist that at all benefit shows she must have "top billing." This does not indicate that Shirley Temple has acquired stage conceit; she does not applaud her own picture on the screen. She still believes in Santa Claus. Apparently unaware that if she needs toys she can well afford to buy them, she spent last week scribbling requests for an electric train with lots of tracks, a tub for washing dolls' clothes...
From the Spanish fable, The Three Cornered Hat, Mr. Dietz has concocted a tale about a lecherous old provincial governor who lusts for the beauteous Maria, betrothed to the miller Carlos. Sample line, by the governor's lonely wife: "I know what I want Santa Claus to bring me?a Christmas peasant...