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...Inside this new literary package readers discovered six time-worn staples-the autobiographies of Madame P'ompadour, Benvenuto Cellini, De Quincey, Rousseau, Benjamin Franklin, St. Augustine. Another time Salop bought an out-of-date civics book. When it did not sell, he dressed it up in a fancy jacket, sold out the edition...
...their sweating Führer, many of them fainted. The asphalt on Berlin's Via Triumphalis was so soft that no tanks or cars with caterpillar treads were allowed on the avenue. For the second time Führer Hitler blossomed out in the new white ceremonial jacket which correspondents labeled the "Axis coat," since it first appeared at the signing of the Italian-German alliance...
...inch just as a carpenter screws into wood. To his delight, new bone tissue soon closed tightly around the screw, and the patient was able to chew comfortably with the protruding head. After several months, Dr. Strock cemented a handsome false tooth shell, known as a porcelain jacket crown, on to the head of the screw, and the tooth looked and felt as good as a real...
Only slightly more agonizing than young Mr. Fairbanks' throes in putting this subversive two & two together is the sight of middle-aged Mr. Rathbone, as a sort of Imperial Rover Boy, lashing about the jungle in bush jacket and shorts, caught barekneed between Love & Duty...
...word got around that the Führer's answer would be cute. Herr Hitler himself set a tone of gaiety for the meeting when, two nights before, instead of dictating his speech to a dictaphone and two harried stenographers, he dressed up in a little-worn dinner jacket and went (along with five carloads of detectives) to the Metropole Theatre where he saw, for the second time, a 19-year-old U. S. girl named Miriam Verne dance in a musical comedy called Melody of the Night. After that, he went to Berlin's Artists' Club...