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Nothing for Waxey. Waxey appeared before the committee last week, freshly shaved, neat in an executive's blue suit, a blue tie splotched with yellow. His face was marred by a truculent frown. Waxey denied any financial interest in the two companies; explained carefully that he had no funds, that he had not worked regularly since 1933, that he lived on the kindness of friends. He had good reason to insist on his insolvency-Waxey owes the Government the fabulous sum of $3,000,000 on income-tax frauds, which he is paying off at the rate...
...enterprises in the Middle East, once looked favorably on the idea of Arab unity, which might have buttressed Arab loyalty to the Crown in the dark days when Rommel was at El Alamein. Now latest reports had it that the British approved only religious, cultural and economic ties, would frown on wartime political unions...
Service men are not much seen in the Cambridge booze paladiums today, for the official edicts frown on bottle-totin' soldiers and sailors. Weekend bar-hanging by men on overnight passes evens things up a bit, however...
...frown from the Nazis, Domagk rejected a $40,000 prize from the fund established by the peace-loving inventor of dynamite, Alfred Nobel...
Suddenly a boy carrying a green card dashed by. "Study card," thought Vag, and a puzzled frown rose to his face. What had it said on his card? With a gasp Vag wrenched open the brown envelope he'd been dangling and skimmed its contents. What was this: "Two signatures . . . forgotten . . . five o'clock!" With a cry of anguish Vag glanced at his watch and tore down the path. Beads of sweat stood out on his face...