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...Your German is, of all foul and dirty fighters, the foulest and dirtiest. We must . . . give them hell in every sort of way." As rebellious criticism mounted, political dopesters even mentioned David Lloyd George the "Welsh Wizard" who won the last war for Great Britain, as a possible last-ditch Cabinet appointee. And from France came censored dispatches predicting soon the formation of a "sacred union," Government of all parties...
Starting as a hill town cobbler's son, Aretino became the most powerful and popular writer in Europe, was perhaps the greatest and certainly the dirtiest master of low vernacular prior to Louis-Ferdinand Celine. Through blackmail, stark flattery, incredible effrontery, and a genius for spotlighting weakness wittily, he forced most of the greatest men of his time to pay his way and to acknowledge him as equal. His great friend Titian described him as "a condottiere (gangster boss) of literature." Biographer Chubb compares his fame to that of Byron, his influence to that of Voltaire...
...confiscated jewels. Though at first they ask, "What would Comrade Lenin say?" about stopping at a swank hotel, the answer soon comes clear: "Comrade Lenin would say, 'The prestige of the workers must be upheld.' We cannot go against Comrade Lenin." But they hastily order "the smallest, dirtiest room in the hotel" when Moscow sends Ninotchka (Greta Garbo) to check up. She is an unsmiling young Russian, with a delightful Swedish accent, who announces that love is a chemical reaction, wants to know at once how much steel the Eiffel Tower contains. At Count Leon's (Melvyn...
...when, grown senile at 80, he was asked by his colleagues to resign from the Supreme Court. Refusing, he was reminded that he had once served on a committee to secure the resignation of another doddering Justice, Robert Cooper Grier. "Yes," blazed the stubborn oldster, "and it was the dirtiest deed of my whole life...
...brokers from charging any rate of interest they please." Big fiction feature of The Pawnbrokers' Journal was "A Fair Exchange" by Harry Irving Shumway. This story opens with Pawnbroker Moe Epstein appraising a diamond for his friend Marcus. Says Moe: "A full quarter of a carat but the dirtiest diamond I ever see. Nine dollars is the very positive limit." Marcus offers to trade the diamond for a tray of fountain pens, then balks because the pens appear to be ''too yellow." Moe says, "So are canary birds, but who's afraid of canary birds? Well...