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Perhaps the most puzzling element to Juanita Broaddrick's story, as related on the editorial page of the Feb. 18 Wall Street Journal , is her claim that after Bill Clinton allegedly raped her in 1978, "he looked down at her and said not to worry, he was sterile--he had had mumps when he was a child."
American examples of this type of witticism include, from George Jean Nathan's Monks Are Monks (1929), as bored as an oil-well and as swell as the mumps .
Even her puffy cheeks are eloquent: They made me think of Mumford as the home of the psychological mumps.
These toughest of all Canadians have withstood the hardships of the far north, including its icy deserts and Arctic blizzards, but were nearly wiped out by European diseases — measles, mumps, and smallpox.