Word: certainly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...York State Conservation Department fined two Manhattan milliners $50 apiece for displaying a 59-year-old hat adorned with bird of paradise feathers. They were cited under a law which prohibits commercial display of the plumage of certain wild birds...
...Brazil it is political suicide to oppose SESP. This week the finance committee of the Brazilian Chamber of Deputies meets to debate the Health Ministry's 1949 budget, which includes 40 million cruzeiros ($2,000,000) for SESP. The SESP item is almost certain to be un touched. Too many Brazilians agree with Rio Physician Dr. Kenneth Waddell: "The only possible criticism of SESP is that there is not enough...
...week, portly, rosy-cheeked Veteran Communist Wilhelm Pieck called the signals for the Reds at a meeting of party functionaries in the Russian sector's Friedrichsstadt Palace. He confessed that the airlift was hurting the Red cause. Said Pieck: "There is no doubt that it has had a certain effect on the needy masses." Pieck cried for direct action against the uncompromisingly anti-Communist city government: "Fellow workers! You must frustrate a reactionary plot. Urgently we call on the people of Berlin to settle their score with . . . parties in the city government . . . We are sure the people of Berlin...
...Whistles. Then there were the performers themselves: "How come somebody doesn't. . . instruct certain of those hamfats in the ABCs of stage deportment? . . . 'Watching a love scene at the Met [wrote Billy, quoting a friend] is like seeing Gone With the Wind with Sydney Greenstreet playing Rhett Butler and Sophie Tucker as Scarlett O'Hara . . .' My suggestion is that we interview the fatsos one by one . . . and suggest they consult a doctor. Of course, great singers like Melchior and Traubel should be kept regardless of heft, but minor singers could be given a year...
...Secondary Hamper. On the jacket, the U.S. publisher compares the techniques that Potter and certain accomplices have worked out to "psychological warfare." Since it is directed against "friends," gamesmanship attacks the very woof of society. Some of Author Potter's maxims...