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...Those kids can really pour it on," said Duble last night. "You've never seen such a bunch of seatbacks. They can do everything the big-timer...
Bridges arrived in the United States in 1920, at the age of 20. After the bloody dockyard strikes of 1934, the Communist charges began to pour in, and in 1936 Bridges was exonerated from those charges by the Department of Labor. Then in 1938 a special commission under Dean Landis of the Law School decided that he was not deportable. His methods, Landis said, were not "other than those that the framework of democratic and constitutional government permits...
Leon Henderson tried desperately to pour oil on troubled waters: he pointed out that normal consumption is 13 Ib. a year, argued that a ration of one pound every five weeks would not be so bad. (He did not point out that his statistics were based on total population, including adults who do not drink coffee and children under 15, who will get none under rationing.) But every coffee drinker knew that one cup a day represented a drastic cut. The panic buying went on, with no signs of stopping until shelves were bare. In some places anti-hoarders even...
...audiences, Gracie Fields's entertainment goes pretty much on its brand name acquired abroad. British servicemen find it tophole. They crowd into the studio, mill around afterwards for autographs, pour their troubles into Grycie's willing ears. One night last week two tars insisted on escorting her from her hotel to the broadcasting studio, explaining that back in England they had never got a close-up of her. Sighs Gracie: "I guess they think I'm Britannia...
About ten years ago, when we first moved into the old country farmhouse where we now live, the boojums had had the run of the place and were annoyed at being ousted. They used to steal or break anything new we put in the house, pour water in the new paint cans for painting the house, snatch the hub caps off the cars of anyone ^ho tried to visit us, and generally made lift miserable...