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...half-heartedly with pipes. In Chicago, a chain drug store picked up a couple of hundred cartons at a Post Office auction and hauled them away, like so many square-cut emeralds, under bristling armed guard. In Manhattan, two frequently quoted women allowed themselves to be quoted. Said famed Wit Dorothy Parker: "I'm smoking whatever I can get-Strange Fruit, or whatever they're called." Said bustling Columnist Dorothy Thompson: "I go around snatching cigarets from the mouths of my young girl acquaintances and saying: Look what happened...
...McCarthy, which has become an even more popular national figure, and probably more human to a larger number of people than any inanimate object in world history. It takes only the mildest indulgence in the world of fantasy to be persuaded that Charlie, a fellow of infinite and raucous wit, is actually alive...
...liked to sit up into the small hours with a brilliant circle of friends ? Oliver Goldsmith, David Garrick, Sir Joshua Reynolds, William Hogarth ? while James Boswell feverishly memorized his conversation. Johnson ruled the roost with a rod of iron. In return for his wit and brilliant common sense, his friends endured his incredible rudeness and prejudices...
...quiet, moody, self-conscious man whose wit is armor as well as ammunition. He is crotchety about his age; to somebody who asked where he was born, and when, he quipped: "I was born in San Francisco-and I don't blame you for trying." He is facetious about his youth...
...silk merchant, chunky, bald, beret-wearing Carrel could reputedly thrust his thumb & index finger inside a matchbox, tie a catgut knot impossible to undo with two hands. In nearest-complete secrecy, he experimented in his black-toned, dustless Manhattan laboratories, later on isolated St. Gildas Isle off France. A wit, connoisseur, inspired but abstemious gourmet and longtime agnostic, he received the last rites of the Roman Catholic church; his final illness prevented his trial for collaboration with the Nazis...