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...most felicitous impromptu speeches. Not all of it could be heard above the laughter and applause but deafening cheers greeted His Majesty's remark: "We in England need this rain less than the drought-stricken portions of Canada." Before drifting away the Canadians sang the refrain For He's a Jolly Good Fellow! and God Save the King over & over...
...took the visiting dentists at their face value, bedecked the city with lavender & white bunting (A. D. A. colors), supplied special free trips to the two great bridges being constructed across San Francisco Harbor. The Glad Tiding Temple Bible Institute's motorized loudspeaker serenaded the dentists with the refrain: "Oh, when we all pull together, together, together, how happy we will be." At the dentists' main banquet the St. Francis Hotel presented a huge confection in the shape of a full denture, cookies shaped like molars...
...about to resign. Stanley Baldwin stepped into his limousine at last and was driven 35 miles to the House of Commons where only his henchmen cheered. That night he went to the 100th anniversary banquet of the City of London Conservative Party organization, was greeted by the refrain, "For He's a Jolly Good Fellow!" and made a speech such as only frankly bumbling Stanley Baldwin can get away with...
Friends assert to this day that the chairman hung up a new unofficial ten-foot record in his dash to the telephone. Unfortunately the paper was hot off the griddle, and a coldly polite voice answered in that mournful refrain of "Miss Otis regrets...
Last week the stockholders of Container Corp. of America received a printed postcard from their company, beginning with the well-worn refrain: "It is our policy to give our stockholders full information at all times. . . ." Prepared to slog through the usual corporate platitudes, Container stockholders opened their eyes wide at what followed: "We recognize that while matters of considerable importance will be submitted at the Annual Stockholders' Meeting in Chicago it may be difficult or impossible for many of our Eastern stockholders to attend this meeting because of distances involved. Therefore, I cordially invite you, or your duly accredited...