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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 .
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."
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.
Even her puffy cheeks are eloquent: They made me think of Mumford as the home of the psychological mumps.