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This week, when the press met him again, Mr. Hull made two points, both again demonstrating the world range of U.S. interests: 1) the Russian-Yugoslav friendship pact was encouraging (this little bouquet was the second handed the Soviet Union by the State Department in three weeks); 2) a statement by Marshal Henri Pétain, chief of France-that France's honor required that she take no action against a former ally-was important. The two diplomatic words, "encouraging" and "important," meant vastly more than they seemed to mean. Apparently U.S. diplomatic cultivation of Moscow and Vichy also...
Scarfaced, 550-lb. Gargantua turned a curious look upon the first gorilla he had seen since he left Africa. Apparently he liked what he saw. He threw her a bouquet of celery tops. Uppishly, 438-lb. M'Toto tossed it back. He tried a head of lettuce...
Tanyard Street (by Louis D'Alton, produced by Jack Kirkland). In this solemn drama by one of Dublin's Abbey Theatre playwrights, an ardent young Irish Catholic comes home paralyzed after fighting for Franco. One night a bouquet of flowers is mysteriously moved from his bedroom shrine to his bed, and the next morning he is suddenly well. The cure is hailed as a miracle. Thereupon the young man decides to renounce his wife for the priesthood, and she agrees to take the vow of chastity which will allow him to do it, even though...
...have everything - I hand her the bouquet...
...commute her term. As her fellow prisoners waved tearful farewells and the Mexican press broke into congratulatory headlines, Seiiora Castro Balda walked out through the prison gates. A vindicated martyr, at 49 more bloomingly plump than ever, she drove with her husband to the Villa Madero, placed a grateful bouquet at the foot of the Virgin of Guadalupe...