Word: isn
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Berlin next reported that Harold Tittmann, the U.S. Chargé D'affaires at the Vatican, had informed Cardinal Maglione, Papal Secretary of State, that the U.S. would rebuild the monastery. The Cardinal was supposed to have replied: "Even if you rebuild it in gold and diamonds, it still isn't the monastery...
...Luscious Lucius noted a minor tragedy for voluptuaries: "Cartier's isn't selling anywhere near the number of men's gold garters the shop usually does. Not because there is a declining demand; on the contrary, they aren't able to fill even the orders on hand because of the difficulty of obtaining good quality -elastic...
Charlie White made the most of an old speech by Churchill, delivered in 1924 when Winnie was an "out" trying to get back in. Said Churchill then: "It isn't right that the . . . division [district] should be passed from hand to hand as is the case with a piece of furniture being handed on from father to son, or from uncle to nephew...
...favorite classmates, who isn't doing too well in disbursing, recently asked his instructor what billet the low man in the last class received. "Oh, nothing much," replied the amiable lieutenant. "He got a gasoline barge sailing between Samoa and the States!" Our friend is studying harder...
Almost immediately the telephone rang! Suspecting an over-anxious chamber of commerce, I strolled to the phone to hear "Nikki" on the wire--Nikki, whom I "whistled at when you came through the lobby." Now my whistle isn't bad, but, generally speaking, it's pretty well controlled, and I protested my innocence. But the more we discussed the matter, the more insistent "Nik" became...