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...knock Italy...
...find a concubine in her rightful place. Too often the concubine was herself a "modern girl," unwilling to retire and dead against accepting the traditional role of handmaiden. For some there were successful compromises, but for most court seemed the only answer. ("Two spoons in the same bowl will knock against each other.") Then courts became so clogged that a "duration" moratorium on all such cases was proclaimed...
...turn our face to the Pacific, the hop-skip to Vella Lavella will look like a pip-squeak. Then strategists can begin to contemplate the kind of spectacular bypassing that will be necessary if we ever expect to reach Tokyo, the kind of massive land invasions necessary to knock the Jap out of his main bases and hold them. Until they can turn around, the Allies will have to be satisfied with keeping the Jap jumping by pinching his protuberances...
Purpose of the raid was to knock out Germany's dwindling oil resources, speed Italy's collapse, crush what was left of Rumania's fighting spirit. Gloated Major General Lewis Brereton, commander of the Ninth: "It is reasonable to suppose that the gallant action . . . has materially affected the course...
...Cockeye Johnny, self-styled King of the Gypsies. Says Johnny: "To the Department of Welfare, I may not be no king and to the King of England, I may not be no king, but to those poor, persecuted gypsies that I run myself knock-kneed looking after their personal welfare, I am king." A gin drinker, Johnny mixes it with Pepsi-Cola, calls it old popskull, consumes five quarts of gin a week. Johnny believes there are but two kinds of merchandise: "lost and unlost. Anything that ain't nailed down is lost." Johnny gets easily worked up over...