Word: refrains
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...song in the West Indies has a refrain: "Mama don't want no peas, no rice, no coconut oil." Mama wants them now. If food from the mainland is not run past submarine packs in the blue-green Caribbean Sea, panic, riots and revolt are imminent. Last week in Jamaica, worried, corseted Colonial Governor Sir Arthur Richards invoked the wartime use of flogging to curb: 1) sporadic outbreaks of violence by roving bands of hungry, unemployed natives; 2) a "wild or acute form of panic...
...Sample: "Unity thought the Führer The greatest man on earth So did a lot of folks high up, For what their views were worth. Not that we mention any names, Or we might get it hot. But now that Unity is back Our comment is, So what?" Refrain: ''For Redesdale's daughter, Unity, Has quit the Fatherland And now with us consents to dwell. Where is our best prize band...
This was encouraging. Nevertheless, the left-wings kept shouting about "vested interests." Over the ominous British and U.S. shipping losses they repeated their old refrain. Emanuel Shinwell charged that British shipbuilders have mucked up production by insisting on types of ships with the greatest possible post-war commercial value. At week's end the Government took the debate into a secret session amid cries...
...Here's an interesting news item that appeared in last night's Presse: [translation] 'Marshal Pétain has modified the text of the Marseillaise. In the future the verse following the refrain: Their blood impure shall bathe our thresholds soon will not be sung. Pétain probably thinks that these words could offend the Germans or the partisans of collaboration. Words to replace those eliminated have not yet been chosen...
...Class Marshal's baton, rifled his pockets and hid him behind a sign marked "Michael Peebly Chowder and Marching Club, Sections MM-J6 Inclusive." Along with a time whistle, an Eliot Houce saucer, an Ibis, three Dunster spoons, a Shakespeare Folio and a sign from the Fogg reading "Please refrain from breathing on the walls," there was one copy, slightly mutilated, of the 25th Anniversary Guide. Grasping it tightly in our grubby little fist, we fled in terror...