Word: cunningness
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Most men give themselves away in their letters, and T. E. was no exception. The final casting-up of his complicated, restless, unfrank character is well done by Robert Graves: "He had all the marks of the Irishman: the rhetoric of freedom, the rhetoric of chastity, the rhetoric of honour...
In 1934, she admits gloomily, Germans echoed the sentiment of her hotel maid, who gave thanks that "we Germans have Adolf Hitler sent by God to help us." But by the next year Germans had begun talking in words that were oblique and ambiguous. They sang more than they cheered...
Eggs, Baskets, Bets. Last week the "guardian" was playing the Pilsudski game for all it was worth. Having recently visited Führer Hitler at Berchtesgaden, entertained German Foreign Minister Joachim von Ribbentrop at Warsaw and signed a commercial treaty and reaffirmed a non-aggression pact with Soviet Russia, Colonel...
Thereupon Banker Giannini himself took a bold propagandistic step. To squelch SEC charges that he took more money from his empire than he admitted, A. P. (who has lately been closeted with cunning Pressagent Edward L. Bernays) released a complete statement of his net worth, including cash, securities, salary, insurance...
On the other hand, The Green Fool, the autobiography of a sort of Irish Jesse Stuart, is one of the most plum-Irish volumes in a month of Sundays. Born in Mucker (corrupted Gaelic for "good pig-raising place"), County Monaghan, Patrick Kavanagh was "a bit of a lazybones, a...