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...carpet, a short-wave telephone, a gold compact, and a lifetime fountain pen. Nearby was a gunmetal "hardtop" convertible designed for President Wilson and christened the Coup de Ville. Upholstered in pleated gunmetal leather, it has a telephone, pull-out desk and engraved vanity case. ("Not that I use powder," quipped Wilson...
...some schussers can't be stopped. They were lured by the press notices from Aspen, Colorado, which boasted a 20 to 80 inch base and six to eight inches of powder, or north to the Laurentians which always seem to have snow. Others stayed in New England and slid at high speed down the mottled local slopes to give this area the highest Christmas accident percentage in years...
...cantata-sung by the Christian choir from Spencer, eight miles away-was Freedom's biggest Christmas celebration. The day it was held, most of the customers at the Regal (which offers such homely items as Clabber Girl Baking Powder and Mail Pouch Tobacco) chatted about it, and some started talking about the way the world looked to them as Christmas drew near...
...Senator Tydings: "In the last war the only powder . . . this scoundrel . . . ever smelled was in the presence of ladies who might have adorned the windward side of the parade ground ... A perpetual, chronic, revolving liar...
...Positive Benefit. "Do not expend much powder and shot on Mr. Butler," Charles Darwin advised one of his supporters, "for he is really not worthy of it. His work is merely ephemeral." But Butler, who hated Darwin's evolutionary theory of "natural selection" as much as he hated the Established Church, expressed his own views early in his career by denouncing, in four large volumes, the idea that man "survived or perished according to a process of 'natural selection' into which neither God's will nor man's nor any being's appeared...