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...months later Lord heard from her again. Her conscience was bothering her. She was not Mollie Ticklepitcher at all, as Mr. Lord had so kindly supposed, but an actress with a tank town stock company. Only truth in her jest : she did have...
...Often a jest by the ebullient Göring reflects what he knows to be in the mind of his friend Hitler, who seldom jokes. To the solemn Führer it is an unanswerably simple proposition that Britain should be willing to give him tit for tat. Tat is the Treaty of 1935 by which the German Navy was limited to 35% of the size of the British Navy, plus the Treaty of 1937 by which qualitative limitation of the two navies with respect to each other was fixed. Tit would be the ratio at which, after diplomatic trading...
This was more than jest. Mr. John Whelan Dulanty, the High Commissioner in London for the Irish Free State, was reported last week ready to observe the coming into effect of the de Valera Constitution next week by assuming his new title "High Commissioner for Ireland"-i.e. by implication for all Ireland, including not only the Free State but also Ulster. Mr. Dulanty was reported to have taken delivery of letterheads with his new title. Next week under its new Constitution the Irish Free State will also drop its present title and style itself "Ireland...
...intention of speaking. I have been dragged here by force," Candidate Stalin was pleased ponderously to jest. "But so long as I am here I may as well say somethinging already has been said by others! . . . Elections in other countries are conducted as clashes of class against class. There is pressure by the sharks of Capitalism! We have no pressure here by the haves or have nots. . . . None can put pressure on the people to manipulate the elections. That is why our elections are the only free democratic elections in the world. . . . Comrades, on my side I assure...
Trained at his father's kiln. Designer Willet acquired a second-generation ease with his materials which has enabled him to perpetrate many a monkish jest in solemn designs. The first work he ever submitted to Architect Cram showed a young, red-haired craftsman offering a sample window to a stern king with Cram's features. In classical script appeared the legend: Non tam bona quam quaedam fortasse mon tam mala quam quaedam alia certe.* Cram looked it over, asked: "What is that little devil doing whispering in my ear?" Said Willet: "Oh, that...