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...Dowager Marchioness revealed that she has organized squads of women to listen attentively, sympathetically and endlessly to the verbal outpourings of those war-shocked Britons who enjoy telling about how they were bombed. To most Britons, "Speaking of bombs . . ." has become as dull a phrase as "Speaking of operations ..." and the press has made fun of "bomb bores...
...feeble; the one grand piece of eloquence Dr. Phelps allows him to deliver is from Hamlet, is spoken in disgust, and is, at that, the mildest dose of vitriol the good doctor could lift out of Hamlet's tongue-lashing. And Samuel Taylor Coleridge, a sometime master of verbal magic, begins a mother-sonnet...
Meanwhile, new Premier Hussein Sirry Pasha was getting his political bearings with difficulty. To the Chamber of Deputies in Cairo last week Premier Sirry made a speech outlining his foreign policy in clouds of verbal obscurity. His keynote seemed to be that Egypt "does not intend yet" to go to war. Hussein Sirry Pasha left no doubt that Egypt is now giving Britain all aid and cooperation short of declaring war on the Axis, whose planes again bombed Alexandria, operating base of the British Mediterranean Fleet. Since Egypt has been for years a more or less willing British puppet...
...years, occasionally taking time out to read choice excerpts (under the promise of strict secrecy) to breathless Harvard undergraduates. This week, after tossing out "trivialities, irrelevancies," as well as "thousands of commas and dashes," and toning down some of the more excoriating comments to a mere trickle of verbal lava, Critic DeVoto published the balance of Twain's autobiography as Mark Twain in Eruption...
Startling to many a sponsor were Miss McBride's broadcasts for WOR. Tooling along at a great verbal clip for 45 minutes, she frequently forgot which products she had plugged, usually wound up her show by asking her announcer if there was anything she'd overlooked. When sponsors complained about her methods, she told her listeners all about it, brought a deluge of letters to support her. Eager to prevent even "one teeny white lie" from, slipping into her program, she once spent an entire Sunday touring picnic grounds to discover how picnickers enjoyed a soft drink...