Word: enough
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Suez directors gathered for their annual meeting in Paris last week, President of the Board, smooth, aristocratic Marquis de Vogüe,* paid his respects to the sentimental Italian claims just long enough to deny them: Italian claims are based either on "bad faith" or "extreme ignorance." Of the three alleged Italian builders of Suez he said: 1) Negrelli was not an Italian but an Austrian. He never worked on the Canal. The reason: a year before Canal digging started, Negrelli died. 2) Paleocapa refused a job at Suez. The reason: he had gone blind. 3) Torelli did not become...
...bulk of Canal tolls going into French pockets, while cutting down British profits of the Asiatic and East African trade, suggest tolls based not on tonnage but on draught, abolition of the tax on passengers, 50% rebate for ships in ballast. But they are not worried enough to sponsor the Italian demands for an international commission to run the Canal. They want no Axial partner sitting over the life line, even in a director's chair...
...suit, a pistol, seven rounds of ammunition, two chocolate bars, sandwiches and 55?, he marched blithely into one Edward Walz's drive-yourself aerodrome at Camden, N. J., rented a two-seated, high-wing Luscombe monoplane ($9 for one hour). In its gas tanks were eight gallons, barely enough for a 175-mile...
...Service Entrance is a chronicle-somewhat humorless, written in upstairs rather than backstairs English-of abuse, exploitation, wretched servants' quarters, meals on leftovers, petty impositions, large-scale cheating. (Young Mr. Carter, a febrile, Napo-Iconic financier, was the most egregious character of the lot: though he was rich enough to keep a yacht, he diddled the Goritzins out of $1,200 in wages and loans...
Many a young English novel today is obsessed with the fear of war, Fascism, Communism, Democracy's collapse, neurosis. Allegorical figures of Fascism, Communism, Democracy wrestle semi-essay-istically, through Wellsian plots, with a hero nebulous enough to squeeze at last into some sort of mystical bomb shelter. Such novels seem curiously at odds with the authors' vigorous personal activities-mountain climbing, travel, hiking, sports...