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Butchers stroked their jaws and pondered. Bakers smote their thighs and vowed. Bond salesmen banged their desks in glee, wrote down new addresses. Doctors hemmed, cogitated, jotted in their notebooks. Housewives and other married women bit their lips, considering, some in pride, some in anger, some in mortification. Up and down the land, "high" society buzzed and cackled; "low"society grinned, frowned, asked questions or just looked on. In their offices, restaurants, clubs, the income-taxpayers of the U. S. groaned and bore it; then...
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