The integration of the Negro into American society is one of the most exciting challenges to self-development and self-mastery that any nation of people ever faced.

Father's snoring grows to sound increasingly like a vacuum cleaner in heat.

Listening to Britons dining out is like watching people play first-class tennis with imaginary balls.

Not being one to calculate or look ahead, I had not stopped to think, when boys started paying attention to me, that the cup might be dashed from my lips, though experience should have taught me that dashing cups from lips was the way Victorian parents got most of their exercise.

A lady getting a missing belt back from the cleaner couldn't have been more surprised and pleased.

He must have had a magnificent build before his stomach went in for a career of its own.

Humorists are not humorous twenty-four hours a day. In fact, when you get to know them well, they are often not humorous at all. They tend to be hypersensitive, taut, neurotic creatures driven by God know what obscure compulsion to earn their living the hard way.