Word: daggerisms
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...Major General William J. ("Wild Bill") Donovan, wartime boss of the cloak & dagger Office of Strategic Services, now a Manhattan attorney, plunked for Eisenhower...
James Mason, with his polished playing of the poker-faced valet, helps iron out some of the dialogue wrinkles in this cloak & dagger drama. Also lending a bit of credulity to the proceedings: Oscar Karlweis as Moyzisch and John Wengraf as his boss, Ambassador Franz von Papen...
...sticks of dynamite battled police armed with tear gas. A jaunty French colonel, full-uniformed to campaign ribbons and kepi, attempted to argue with them. Two pistol shots rang out, a heavy club landed on the colonel's unhelmeted head, and when the skirmish was done, an Arab dagger was found plunged into his chest. The colonel walked to his jeep and died. Eight Arabs were killed and 20 wounded in the battle. At Porto Farina, a Tommy gun mowed down one gendarme from behind a cactus hedge. "I've been stationed here for five years," said...
...capitals in a borrowed U.N. plane, to arrange a three-day celebration. Someone got the loan of a U.S. howitzer for a 101-shot salute, then found an old Turk who thought he knew how to fire it. A team of G.I. technicians visited the King in his dagger-hung study, to record his independence proclamation for broadcast. The King patiently reread the speech four times and then, when it was played back on a wire recorder, widened his eyes and giggled...
...Down. There was good reason for all the cloak & dagger precautions. Nothing affects the market price of cotton more than the board's prediction. A speculator who had the figure even an hour in advance could make a killing in the market. For example, in October, when the board scaled down its original estimate of a record 17.2 million-bale crop to 16.9 million bales and then cut it to 15.8 million in November, many a farmer was howling mad. Those who had sold at low prices felt cheated by the new estimate, which immediately started cotton prices rising...