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...best and the worst in postwar Austria-the worst being complacency and resignation, the best being his stubborn courage. He also combines the simplicity of four centuries of Catholic peasant forebears with some of the acquired awareness (and tinsel knowledge) of Viennese sophisticates. In his well-tailored morning coat, he still looks the farmer, and he seems quite out of place as he sits in his lavish offices in Vienna's Ballhausplatz, under a portrait of Metternich, who manipulated Europe from the same chamber. Yet somehow Figl is not out of place: he knows little of crafty diplomacy...
...bowled, a professor's wife said: "You said in your History . . . that the rise and fall of civilization is based on a series of challenges and responses. Now here is a challenge. What is your response?" Said Toynbee: "I'll accept it," and promptly peeled off his coat. His first frame: a complete miss; the third: a clean strike. His reaction to the event: "I say, I think that was a good bit of fun. We must do it again...
Since the first mink coat appeared on the Washington scandal scene, you have scarcely missed an issue wherein you did not drag mink and mink coats in general through...
...seniors massed at the post to await the starting whistle. For the first hundred yards an unidentified male wearing a coonskin coat and a beanie led the runners. But he and the whole field had to give way to a skillful roller from West Newton named Mary Lou Lyon, who, though starting in the third file, had the skill and luck to outlast her classmates in the grueling grind...
...Poor Richard's Almanac". In the 1756 issue, Franklin wrote. "When you incline to have new clothes, look first well over the old ones, and see if you cannot shift with them for another year, either by scouring, mending, or even patching if necessary. Remember, a patch on your coat and money in your pocket is better and more creditable than a write on your back and no money to take it off." This was greeted with stony disapproval by the struggling cloak-and-suit industry of the colonies...