Word: anyways
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Buckshot for a Juke Joint. The sheriff let himself down on the steps and talked softly. "You know that when you elected me, I was sworn to uphold the law," he said. "And I have to protect my prisoners." Anyway, he added, the prisoners had been rushed off to another jail for safekeeping. (A third suspect was in the jail at the time, but was sneaked off later...
...face lifting, some rigorous massage and the trick of pronouncing the word "brush" before entering the drawing room (it fixes her smile) convert her Edwardian pomp into a garish girlishness. Cedric completes his round of conquests by capturing Polly's husband, who has lost his interest in women anyway, and whisking him and Lady Montdore off to a gay Paris holiday. "So here we are, my darling," chortles Cedric to an old friend, "having lovely cake and eating it, too, which is one's great aim in life...
...life and fate. In Indo-China, where Surgeon May spent eight years of his life, his native assistant smiled when May postponed lunch to operate on an emergency case. To what end? the assistant asked. The patient was of the coolie class, too starved to live much longer anyway. And who could be sure that death was not better than life? "In these parts," the assistant told him, "we think human life has no value; it will be hard to persuade us that...
Good as this argument is, determined as Cripps is that there shall be no devaluation, it may come anyway. The very talk of devaluation persuades Britain's potential customers to postpone orders in the hope of being able to pay for them later in cheaper pounds...
...greatly regret that my 93 years do not permit me ... to repeat my [1931] visit to Moscow, which remains one of the brightest of all my cherished memories," wrote Bernard Shaw, declining an invitation to the 150th anniversary of Alexander Pushkin's birthday. He sent good wishes anyway: "The Soviet Union still interests me more than any other state in the world, including my own country...