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Lordly Arrogance. When Michele Rende comes home, a veteran of the African campaign, the wretched villagers of Grupa immediately fear and admire him, though they do not know why. But there is a lordliness and arrogance in the gait of the man which impresses them all, especially 13-year-old Nino, the imaginative boy whom he befriends...
...Lavender Hill Mob," Guinness is a petty bank official, a man who counts gold ingots as they are delivered from refinery to the vault. His name is Henry Holland (most fictitious meek Englishmen are named Henry), and his indrawn chin and cautiously ambling gait are the touches of a perfectionist. But behind Henry's humble facade there lies an astute mind, and when he has gathered his "mob" of two hoodlums around him to plan his gold robbery, he is a different...
Protests against dentures and spectacles charges were as mere grains of grit compared to the big rocks the Tribune hurled at Chancellor of the Exchequer Hugh Gaitskell-the issues of price rises, the extent of rearmament, and its encroachment on the welfare state. In short Gait-skell's budget said that Britain had to make some sacrifices of living standards and social services in order to rearm. Bevan & Co. insisted that social services must all take precedence over defense. To avoid this very clash, Attlee on Jan. 18 had moved Bevan from Minister of Health to Minister of Labor...
Last week homely, rawboned Estes Kefauver, always eager to please, was trudging through California, doggedly intent on the trail of Big Crime. His gait was steady and a little flatfooted. His air was mildly astonished, as befitted a wary Tennessee mountain man inspecting the sinful sight of the big cities...
Until last week, museums were generally unkind to Thomas Hart Benton and Benton was unkind to museums. They resemble graveyards, he remarked ten years ago, "run by a pretty boy with delicate wrists and a swing in his gait . . . Nobody goes to museums. I'd like to sell [my paintings] to saloons...