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...Meantime, an Italian battle squadron put out to protect other Italian warships which were returning from a convoy trip to Libya and evidently were the target of the British raiders from the East. Next day, in an engagement in the Ionian Sea off Cape Spartivento (toe of the Italian "boot") lasting from mid-afternoon until nightfall, the Italian warships (said the Italians) "drove the British back from a threatened attack on important Italian coast positions." When night came, the British ran southeast and pursuing Italian units lost track of them. During this excitement, the Italian destroyer Zeffiro was sunk...
Fibber's garrulous tarradiddles, the broguish comeuppances Molly metes out to him, the dated didos of his numerous stooges, are as familiar as the pattern of the living-room rug. Fibber is an incorrigible blowhard, but a game guy to boot. With nonpareil confidence, he tries his luck at anything, from barbering to running an army...
...symbol of a golden age that was, lie was at least the symbol of a golden age that had not entirely died. He had surmounted difficulties that would have been insurmountable in any other country, and pulled himself up to a position of eminence by his own boot-straps. Vag remembered that the Crimson had long ago nominated Fiorello for President in 1944--Vag thought it was a pretty good idea...
...easy for us, behind the safety of the Atlantic tides, to say to an invaded country: "You are folish. You should not resist. You cannot win." Perhaps it is too easy for us to forget what freedom and homeland means, we who have not felt the boot of the tyrant for so long. Perhaps the cynicism which followed the First War has blinded us to the flesh-and-blood emotions which the peoples of Europe are feeling. And yet most Americans have heard the news with a sort of relief, a relief that the futility of the Scandinavian bloodshed should...
...study of drama, I find the buskin, or boot, signifies a tragedy; and the sock, similar to a light moccasin, denotes a comedy...