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...which should at once warm and chill the hearts of hundreds of innocent, scared, suspected, non-fifth-columnists. It also helps bring the book into line for its surprising epilogue. France fallen, and Sir Joseph Mainwaring blathering along about the war's having entered "a new and more glorious phase," Waugh girds up his ghosts in their brave, schoolboyish excitement over the newborn Commandos (he belongs him-self...
...Enjoying Two Dinners, or Invention of the Stomach Pump, which shows a doctor perched on a chair, fountaining the bilge from an overstuffed gourmand with a four-ft. contraption resembling a tire pump. Others wait their turn. Cries one: "Be quick Dr. there is another glorious Dinner...
...trying twelve-week summer session they must soon broil through, they are apparently expected to take the September Bible-Shakespeare-Ancient Authors examination, which is based on summer reading. This examination could be given in all justice in the past, when to most students summer was a glorious period of loafing, with plenty of time for casual study. Now this September examination is an anachronism, a pointless holdover which should be eliminated in view of the new accelerated summer program...
...very idea: "The Chinese Government," said he, "has been spreading the most laughable, false propaganda that the Japanese capital has been bombed. The people of Tokyo pleasantly enjoy the quiet, peaceful and delightful spring days, observing the beautiful cherry blossoms. Now the residents of Tokyo are celebrating our glorious victories under very bright lights...
...Americans are really beginning to realize that they are in the war, and it is a glorious sight," the minister said. "Your production is going very well indeed, and don't believe anyone who tells you differently, but until your morale is 50-50 with your production, everything is not perfect...