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...American ne'er-do-well (Humphrey Bogart) is bound for British East Africa with his Italian wife (Gina Lollobrigida) and four "business associates" (Robert Morley, Peter Lorre, Marco Tulli, Ivor Bernard). "They're desperate characters," concludes one feminine fellow passenger. "Not one of them looked at my legs." The four, when pressed, declare that they are going to sell vacuum cleaners in Kenya ("Hut to hut?" somebody asks), but actually they are off to swing a big uranium swindle. Stranded at a small Italian port while their steamer makes repairs, the six fall in with a discreetly bogus...
...only Man that e'er I knew Who did not make me almost spew Was Fuseli: he was both Turk & Jew-And so, dear Christian Friends...
...Security Administrator, Scott McCleod. It was signed by Norman Armour, onetime Ambassador to Spain; Joseph C. Grew, pre-World War II Ambassador to Japan; William Phillips, ex-Ambassador to Italy; Robert Woods Bliss, former Ambassador to Argentina; and G. Rowland Shaw, former Assistant Secretary of State. (Eld er Statesmen Grew and Armour were recently asked by Secretary of State Dulles to make recommendations for the improvement of the Foreign Service.) "Recently," the letter said, "the Foreign Service has been subjected to a series of attacks from outside sources which have questioned the loyalty and the moral standards of its members...
...Merriam-Webster before writing him. Among other references I quoted Webster, under WORLD, with the paradigm, "All the world loves a lover," and not "love a lover." I gave him Century, and collective nouns, with "herd" as an example, and of course, Gray, "The lowing herd winds slowly o'er the lea." Not "wind." I followed with Bartlett's quotations, with 52 instances of "world" followed by "is" and not once with "are." I politely called his attention to the fact that Merriam-Webster is hyphenated and that his new IBM electric typewriter had skipped the hyphen...
...satisfying junket through the past century of British railroading. When nationalization dooms the unprofitable branch line running from rural Titfield to the market town of Mallingford. the indignant citizens of Titfield take over the archaic rolling stock, with the vicar serving as engineer, the village ne'er-do-well as fireman, and a local squire as brakeman. An alcoholic landowner (Stanley Holloway) supplies the necessary money on being promised that the early-morning train will carry a bar-and-buffet...