Word: factly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...wine accelerates the human faculties, perhaps even that a game of chance may produce a fine exhilaration. He is representative of the British notion that the highroad to success, even in politics 'or business, is not paved entirely with the virtues that the parson preaches of Sundays-that, in fact, its finest pavings are the stones of genius...
...sort of glorified Australian commercial attache assisting the British Embassy in Washington. "Yes, I taught Norman to play tennis," twinkled the Commissioner-General. "But he has been responsible for himself for some time. I am really a businessman, you know." Thus modestly Big Brother Brookes alluded to the fact that he is profitably interested in Australian pulp and paper milling, makes a business of sheep raising in Queensland...
...said, that Australia will not submit to encroachment of a much heavier U. S. tariff on her wool and meats without raising a customs wall of her own against U. S. motor cars, cinemas, farm implements -products which the Dominion can also buy from the Mother Country. Stressing the fact that Australia now buys from the U. S. every year six times as much as she sells to the U. S., suave Commissioner-General Brookes asked in effect if such a very good cus tomer does not deserve generous treatment...
...Loree plan is original. Other plans have been based on the observed fact that, in the East, railroads run mostly East and West. Mr. Loree shaped a system of which New England is the head, the Appalachian Mountains are the backbone and Virginia the Southern extremity. Thus as he, in his dreams, stepped down the Atlantic Coast, he trod on every big Eastern Rail road toe. But the plan, however original, was regarded last week as a protest rather than as a proposal -a protest against the D. & H. being gobbled up by the giants...
...then declare your real strength. If he has two quick tricks, he is given the choice of bidding either a no-trump or his best suit. (If that suit be diamonds, he must bid two diamonds.) Obviously, the advantage of the Vanderbilt bid lies in the fact that the bidding is kept open and the strong three-trick hand is allowed to bid again after learning the strength of its partner...