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This could best be done by forcing the successful revolutionist, General Manuel Orellana, to resign as president of Guatemala. The joke of the whole business was of course not that Revolutionist Orellana had seized the presidency but that he had seized it from one Baudilio Palma who obtained it the week before from original President Lazaro Chacon. The joke which Washington wanted uncracked was that Washington had recognized the second of Guatemala's three successive presidents...
Christopher Columbus performed the impossible feat of making an egg stand on one end by slightly cracking and flattening that end of the eggshell. Sheldon Whitehouse, by means equally simple and direct, un-cracked the Guatemalan joke...
Recalling that Sir Harry's impersonations include an idiot Scotch boy who drools into a kitchen bowl, and a Scotchman who constantly wipes his nose with his sleeve, and that Sir Harry's principal joke is still the one about stinginess, Critic Andrew Dewar Gibbs summed...
...principles of political science." To buttress his views Judge Clark showered his opinion with nonlegal quotations from Confucius, Cicero, Lincoln, Andrew Johnson, Lord Bryce, Justice Holmes, James Monroe, Benjamin Franklin, Montesquieu, William Howard Taft, Congressman Luce, Claude Bowers, Abbott Lawrence Lowell et al. He quoted a feeble joke from the Georgia Supreme Court. His opinion was a display of wide reading and deep scholarship. Whether or not it was good law was another matter. The Judge. Behind the decision was a tall, angular, sandy-haired man of 39 who has the distinction of being the youngest member of the Federal...
...fact that Fawcett magazines (all monthly) now number twelve. Publisher Fawcett returned from the War to Minneapolis (where he had long been police reporter on the Journal) broke and jobless. He borrowed a typewriter and, half for amusement, half with a vague hope of profit, began dashing off "hot" jokes and verses for his Army friends. Popularity was immediate. "Captain Billy" had to mimeograph his "stuff" to meet the demand, giving the sheet the title which persists: Captain Billy's Whiz Bang: "Explosion of Pedigreed Bull." With the backing of a small printer, the magazine went like wildfire...