To a newspaperman, a human being is an item with skin wrapped around it.
Hollywood is a place where people from Iowa mistake each other for stars.
When Jack Benny plays the violin, it sounds as though the strings are still in the cat.
He dreamed he was eating shredded wheat and woke up to find the mattress half gone.
My hometown was so dull that one time the tide went out and never came back.
The American arrives in Paris with a few French phrases he has culled from a conversational guide or picked up from a friend who owns a beret.