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Dash of 'Honey. For his own refreshment during the reading, abstemious Cripps kept by his elbow, in place of the more customary alcoholic fortifier, a tumbler of orangeade spiked with honey. The House was amused. The M.P.s were also amused when he said: "I propose to abolish the excise duty ... on unsweetened table water. [This] is mainly a tax on soda water, which I do not drink. . . . Very little soda water is drunk neat in this country today. . . ." The Tory Daily Mail dubbed the budget "Cripps & Soda...
...sure that he hadn't pitched his last ball; his arm ached badly. Said Murry Dickson sympathetically: "I had a sore arm in St. Pete back in 1940. The fellows asked me to go bowling, so I went . . . suddenly I felt a pricking pain in my forearm and elbow, but I kept bowling. When I finished the game, the pain was gone. I've never had a sore arm since...
Their child boss is a cool, foresighted "premier," whose methodical plans for organized robbery are constantly upset by romantic little upstarts who think it is heroic to disregard orders and rules, to thieve when & where they will. At the premier's elbow is a sage elder statesman (aged 12) who acts as moderator between the boss and the upstarts. The rest of the camp is composed of a passive majority, a child-mother, and a deaf mute...
...pretty?" said Irene Lambert. A fine red, yellow and blue snake now writhed from wrist to elbow on her husband's arm. She handed Charlie ?2 15s. and kissed her husband...
...clam-like wrestler in the 145-pound class and ended up winning an uninteresting 3 to 0 decision, while at 155 Sandy Jones took a default when his opponent left the mat with a dislocated elbow. Don Louria had little trouble with Wesleyan's highly-rated captain Frank Bowles in 165 and topped him 11 to 6, in the best bout of the meet...