Word: evens
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...France (with Paris and Washington at the top of the British Ambassadorial ladder) not to have served in more than one Legation and at least one other Embassy previously, but Sir Ronald is brilliant, literary, shrewd, tactful, firm, sardonic, and so intent on the matter before him that even his golf has something of the nature of a political démarche...
...they all added up to one conclusion: Russia was acting on some understanding with Germany to the effect that she should have a free hand aiding China against Germany's erstwhile partner. And they further suggested what Russia might be getting in return from China-political, economic, perhaps even territorial concessions in China's northwest...
...factors make today's B. E. F. even more informal than the one Sir Philip knew before. Though the caste system still remains between officers & men, it has been broken down somewhat by: 1) removing the ban on officers' hobnobbing with enlisted men off duty; 2) ruling that officers may be chosen from the ranks...
...funnel. Official British account of the Firth of Forth raid maintained that Edinburgh was not hit directly, but suffered seven casualties when fragments flew aboard from bombs striking the water nearby. Where there is smoke there is not necessarily a hit, and the picture may have told the truth even if someone else lied...
Sometimes, when he can't remember his lines, he delivers an address on how embarrassing it is to lose your memory. Once, unable to stand up, he played all through the show sitting down. Another time, when he couldn't even issue from dressing room to stage, he said: "Get me a wheel chair, I'll play Lionel...