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...researches unscathed (save for a regal tendency, noted by Gladstone, to spike her claret with whisky). But Edward VII, her son and heir, was such a celebrated patron of the tarts that La Goulue (Lautrec's model) would call out at the Jardin de Paris: "Allo, Wales! Est-ce-que tu vas payer man champagne...
Protective Coloring. In Tokyo, after a brief investigation, pol:ce felt that they had spotted the man behind a recent rash of wristwatch smuggling, arrested Noboru Higasa, chairman of a local crime-prevention society...
...elder statesman, onetime First Lord of the Admiralty (1922-24), Colonial Secretary (1924-29), wartime Secretary of State for India and Burma under the Commonwealth (1940-45), author (Empire and Prosperity); in his sleep at his home; in London. India-born Amery delivered the oratorical coup de grâce to Chamberlain in 1940 when he quoted in the House of Commons from Oliver Cromwell: "You have sat too long here for any good you have been doing ... In the name of God, go!" A lifelong imperialist, he lived to see his son John convicted and hanged for high treason...
...Sack speaks to us in not one but nine languages on the pages of this dreary little treatise. There are passages in English, French, Spanish, Dutch, Russian, Chinese, Japanese, Latin, and a bastard tongue called Talkie-talkie; phrases like "non, ce n'etait pas moi" (French) and 'nihongo wa wakarimasu ka (Japanese, perhaps) go untranslated; and even when he keeps to English, Mr. Sack uses words like tarsier, euphoria, and hematemesis. The reader might well ask: what is Mr. Sack trying to hide? The answer can be found in chapter 19, if one has the idleness or stamina to read...
...some of those who are opposing renewal of the Trade Agreements Act at the hearings before the Ways and Means Committee. To listen to these gentlemen, this country is just about washed up. Foreign competition has our boasted industry on the ropes, and the coup de grâce will be administered if Congress extends the act under which we negotiate tariff bargains with other nations. This sort of defeatism has been heard from other groups opposing the bill. To judge by such talk, this country is not the greatest industrial power in the world, but an inefficient producer struggling...