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...going?" At any rate, when Czechoslovakia's Jan Masaryk turned up in the Oct. 6 issue wearing his spectacles upside down, more than 100 of you said you noticed it. Fifteen of you, presumably equipped with magnifying glasses, even noticed that there were 56 stars in a floral facsimile of the American flag made by a Mexican florist...
TIME, Sept. 22, cut of five West Point cadets and officer carrying floral facsimile of "Old Glory": the local florist of Chapultepee should have [ascertained] the correct number of white stars to be inserted in the field of blue...
...Southport's Floral Hall Britain's real rulers gathered last week. There Government Ministers faced the rank & file of the T.U.C. (Trade Union Congress) who saw their Socialist dream of high wages and short hours slipping away in Britain's crisis. The big, unpleasant question, posed by the Government, was this: Can there be real "planned economy" unless the Government has the power to plan and control labor...
Among others there are Sir Storrington Thirst ("he had a habit of laying his hands upon you"); mannish Asta Thundersley (she collects paintings of "tumors wearing spectacles, wombs in aspic, ulcers in floral hats"); The Tiger Fitzpatrick, spavined prizefighter ("all I want is a chance at this so-called Braddock"); Mothmar Acord ("a dish-shaped face, discolored by oriental suns and high fevers") ; Sinclair Wensday ("a cocaine personality . . . tall and popular . . . Galahad gone to the devil"). At his best Author Kersh writes like a comic Soho Gorki, drawing wicked, lively sketches of the barflies, pimps, fairies and phonies of London...
...want to work a few years," added the blondish, 21 (but looks younger) New Jersian as she received the floral wreath in the winner's circle, amid flash bulbs and applause...