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"People in Virginia have to pay federal income taxes too," the agent assured him. For a dreadful moment it was so quiet in the office that you could hear a tendon snap. "You're kidding," gasped the doc. But everyone thought the doc was kidding. Last week in federal...
Mamie's father, John Doud-a prosperous meat packer who retired from business in Boone, Iowa to leisure in a big house in Denver at the age of 36-did not oppose this female whimsy. But he was firm on the subject of Sunday afternoon tours in his Packard...
The whole dreadful business comes to an epic climax in another fine scene in which cad Boone and bounder Peter Lawford fight it out with bullwhips, while on a crag high above them, the bush bobby stands like an ibex and dispassionately sees that justice is done.
You want us Asians to fight on your side against Communism. Well, we are fighting at this very moment devils more dreadful . . . disease, poverty, ignorance. You are the richest country in the world, and the countries of Asia are the poorest . . .
For the dreadful blitz days of 1940, the editorial in the London Times may have seemed a minor issue. But not to the Times's readers. The editorial had simply reported that out of a group of 31 children evacuated to the country, 19 did not know who was...