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These, these distinguish us from Fascist ranks...
...Reader Bush is not so salty as he thinks. A full-rigged ship and a schooner are two things. But of late years so many Gloucester fishing schooners have been built "bald-headed"-that is, without topmasts or topsails-that to distinguish the few which still carry all their rigging, it is expedient to speak of full-rigged schooners. A centipede may have anywhere from 38 to 400 legs...
Other ingredients in Mr. Sturges' glittering cocktail are Joel McCrea (as Claudette's husband), and a gay new Mary Astor (as Rudy's sister) with her hair dyed blonde for the first time to distinguish her from brunette Claudette. The plot sometimes seems in need of sign posts to keep things straight. It has to do with Miss Colbert's flight from her husband to Florida and high jinks-which end with Miss Colbert being disrobed by her husband while Rudy croons to her from the garden...
...proposition that the Washington experts might have done better had they concentrated price fixing and rationing on a few basic necessities, typically food, while allowing luxuries to find their own price in the market. Against such a policy the OPA argues that it is extremely difficult to distinguish between necessities and luxuries, and secondly that if luxuries rise in price, manufacturers will switch into making them rather than necessities. But OPA tends to gloss over the fact that higher prices also reduce the demand for goods...
...February LaGuardia told Room Niners that he wouldn't talk to them again until they learned how to quote him accurately. In the spring, overworked and editorially battered, he resigned as head of the Office of Civilian Defense. By then he showed unmistakable signs of being unable to distinguish between criticism of his public acts and his oversensitive self...