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...through, but you will hear more from me. I am going to get busy in this Legion business when I get out where I won't get in wrong when I say things. I am going [to Pennsylvania] tomorrow and tell those soldiers if they don't go out and lick that gang in Philadelphia I'll throw this uniform of mine...
...seems to be the more stupid of the two, but not by very much. In Pardon Us, the teacher in the prison school asks him how many times 3 goes into 9. Laurel's answer: "Three times-and two left over." Hardy's answer: "He's wrong-there's only one left over...
...slippers, explains why by saying: "On account of I can run faster in red shoes." Sophisticated audiences may be pleased to detect something unusual-a subtle and difficult theme -in the film but they will sympathize with other cinemaddicts who are likely to criticize it by laughing at the wrong places...
...when heavy sales poured into the stock, President Simmons decided to support it to the last ditch. After all his millions failed to hold it he gave up. Son "Zammie" then approached him (according to the tale) and said some thing to this effect: "Dad, I knew you were wrong in trying to hold the stock up. I hope you won't be sore when I tell you I've been selling it short the whole time and want to pay you back every cent you lost...
Pigeon-holers used to put Ruth Suckow into the compartment marked "Dreary Middle West, small-town." Pigeon-holers were wrong. Authoress Suckow is not one of those documentary writers who cannot see the people for the buildings. She has more than a hint of that knack Katherine Mansfield had, which many a Russian writer has, of holding a simplifying lens up to human nature. In this book of 14 short stories about Children and Older People you have the almost constant feeling that you are seeing people as they...