a sniffy cold that turned into a sore throat

Bobert gave the audience a coy glance.

Is the salesman's soft-shoe appropriate in a time of national mourning?

Well, it's a long road that has no turning. Something has got to drop some o' these days. Anyhow, we'll have to stick it out as best we can. It will come all right in a hundred years or so, and our present enlistments can't last forever.