whaling the blazes

[Lunnan & Hjort]

Remaining Barks quote, from Daniel van Eijmeren: 

<<Glory be! Then it's okay to whale the blazes out of' em
if I do it with a SMILE! >>

This was epressed with a big relief by Donald, who after 
nine or so pages of hard parental-unclental life was given
the following interesting piece of 1946 advice by Daisy: 
"Why, spank them of course!". 

Nils Lid Hjort
... from Oslo, where we enjoy the many events filling the week of 
the very first Abel Prize. 6 million crowns to Serre (76), who gave 
a wonderful lecture with chalk & blackboard & no manuscript; 
speeches, dinners, receptions, garden parties, music, King & Queen 
& Prime Minister, VIPs flown in (hello, Sir John), the works. 
The person leading today's meeting twice said "Nobel Prize"; 
mathematician's Freudian slip of the tongue.