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John Steinbeck can write, and write wonderfully. But I am outraged when I trust so capable an artist to have him try to knock the intellectual sensitiveness out of me with a bang on the head-or the heart?-using his typewriter as instrument. I dare to say that Of Mice and Men is an illegitimate attack on the emotions, as are also parts of The Grapes of Wrath...
...happened to knock a person's hat off by a snowball, what would you do? -"If it were a grown person, I'd pick it up. If it were a child, I'd just say, 'I'm sorry...
Sweeping across the U. S. last week was the latest fad, successor to Knock-knock, Where's Elmer?. Handies, etc.: Anything too silly or salacious to say right out was being dressed up in pidgin English and put in the innocent mouth of old Kung Fu-tze (Confucius). Most of the people who parroted "Confucius say" did not know that one of China's most distinguished statesmen. Finance Minister Dr. H. H. Kung, brother-in-law of Madame Chiang Kaishek, is a 75th-generation direct descendant of the great philosopher. Nor did they know the whereabouts...
...want to fight again?" "Yes sir," Arturo announced. "If you want tomorrow, I be there tomorrow." According to the script, he was then supposed to follow up with: "Next time, Champ, I knock you out." But smoky Joe, swinging clear from the script, beat Arturo to the punch. "Listen, Godoy," Joe said ominously, "I'm gonna give you another chance. And next time you'd better bring up your five big brothers...
...round preliminary bout on the Braddock-Louis championship card in June 1937. That he would not last four rounds against the Brown Bomber was the general prediction. Some openly complained that he had no right in the same ring with Louis, that his best punch could hardly knock down Joe's little sister Eulalie...