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...clock sounds, more preoccupied intellectuals-for-a-day appear on the sidewalk, nervously testing the points of their pencils or considering the ink supply of their fountain pens; some glance momentarily at crumpled sets of notes, then thrust them back into their pockets, apparently overwhelmed by the immensity of knowledge and the frailty...
...France and Italy, Sir John created an impression so unfortunate that Sir Austen Chamberlain K. G., who had been expected, as a onetime Foreign Secretary and half-brother of Chancellor of the Exchequer Neville Chamberlain, to felicitate His Majesty's Government on the "mission to Berlin," abruptly thrust the notes for his speech back into his waistcoat pocket and rushed off to the Chamberlain stronghold of Birmingham...
...career. Only crabbiest correspondents sneered when elfin little Minister of Propaganda & Public Enlightenment Dr. Paul Josef Goebbels, sparkling-eyed and jumping for joy on his club foot, announced that Germans were rejoicing before he released the news at which they would rejoice. At hastily summoned newshawks. Dr. Goebbels thrust this historic handout: "Enthusiasm prevails among the German people. Simultaneously with this expression of joy and supreme happiness over the defense of German security through the rearmament now resolved upon, the German people knows itself to be at one with the Führer in his clear and unmistakable profession...
...Simpleton of the Unexpected Isles, as usual, some painfully normal English folk were thrust into an eccentric setting, this time among the godlike inhabitants of an island just arisen from the sea. Strutting his pretty taste in paradox, Playwright Shaw again discussed polygamy, Empire, the Church, vegetarianism, Fascism, Indian Independence, medicine...
...Pittsburgh one morning went eagle-nosed Major-General Smedley Darlington ("Old Gimlet Eye") Butler, to speak at a banquet.* That same day Jimmy ("Schnozzle") Durante was appearing at a Pittsburgh theatre. Stepping off his train, General Butler thrust his head forward in characteristic pose, stomped down the platform. Loiterers, mistaking him for the well-publicized Durante, began to cheer. That evening nosey Comedian Durante turned up at the banquet where nosey General Butler was speaking. A cameraman snapped them nose to nose...