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...early days of the Round Table. Everybody read F.P.A.'s "Conning Tower" in the Tribune; Deems Taylor was the World's bright young music critic; George Kaufman was the influential drama editor of the Times; Harold Ross, editor of the American Legion Weekly, was soon to embark on his New Yorker venture; and Dorothy Parker was living, as usual, on the edge of disaster-she had just lost her drama critic's job at Vanity Fair* (at Showman Florenz Ziegfeld's request because Dottie had roasted Mrs. Ziegfeld, alias Billie Burke...
...same token, Barnhart never defines a word with others more complicated or rare. Adjoin is not "to lie contiguous to," but "be next to"; adventurous is not "prone to embark on hazardous enterprises," but "ready to take risks"; shake is not "to be agitated with irregular vibratory motion," but to "move quickly backwards and forwards, up and down, or from side to side"; remainder is not "residue; residuum; remnant," but "the part left over...
...never been more brilliant. He did not, however, persuade the French to give up their opposition to arming Western Germany. At no point did the U.S. publicly and with finality tell the French what sensible French politicians would have liked to hear: the U.S. was not going to embark on a pointless effort to rearm Western Europe unless the French agreed that the Germans be allowed to have their own defenses against the U.S.S.R...
Roland E. Shaine and I, both of the Class of 1941, were the first students to embark on this Plan--just ten years ago. Roland completed the program, as scheduled, in 1944. I had a four-year in the Army between my fourth and fifth years but I managed to finish in September...
...Britain out of step with the U.S., France and most of the Commonwealth. Said Eden sharply: "Recognition has in fact brought out no advantage at all ... Our commercial interests in China are of immense importance [but] it will advantage no one-not those firms, nor anyone else-to embark on a policy of appeasement . . ." British recognition, he added, had adversely affected "events outside China, notably in Indo-China and in Malaya, and throughout Southeast Asia...