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Beatty's tortured concern over his symptoms, his delight when a doctor tries to cure him by tying his toe to his wife's ("modern medicine has made marvelous strides"), his involvement in a robbery and a murder, which he believes himself to have committed while sleepwalking, are above the average for double-bill comedy. Typical shot: Tessie Beatty, who believed she was on her way to Niagara Falls ("where Nature's majestic waters play a constant symphony"), reacting to the discovery that she is in a nut house...
President McKitterick then took his diethylene glycol to Columbia University pharmacologists, had them experiment. They put a solution of smoke from cigarets containing the new hygroscopic agent under the eyelid of a rabbit. To President McKitterick's delight, it produced less swelling than a solution from cigarets using glycerin and, curiously, less than a solution from cigarets using no hygroscopic agent at all. How much this test really proved is still a matter of debate. A solution of smoke is not smoke, a rabbit's eye is not a human throat and almost nothing is known about...
...Realizing that we are closely tied to Fascist Italy and in heartfelt delight at your Excellency's and Fascist Italy's glorious victory, I congratulate you with my whole heart on the great triumph of Italian Fascist arms over barbarism and over democratic dishonesty and hypocrisy...
...insurance, which is about 70% of the world total. Only a few relatively small companies failed in the six lean years. Even in the worst years 7% of the U. S. national income was delivered into the hands of insurance companies in the form of premiums. And to the delight of all insurance salesmen the volume of new business last year set an all-time record...
...conference, there is this to be said. Instead of polite martydom to more than one illy-considered and naive undergraduate question, they were genuinely interested in contact with the undergraduate experiment and willing to help the experiment in every way. Moreover, in many case, they exhibited a personal delight at the chance to discuss the problems over the same table with the men of opposite opinion whom they had been fighting either in the newspapers or in the Supreme Court...