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...Washington was giving a cocktail party. The talk was of Virginia hams and the weather. Suddenly a young reporter spilled his Scotch & water into a girl's lap. Wailed the girl: "What a mess!'' Said Host Fernando Ortuzar, who had been looking elsewhere: "Which mess, madam, London or Argentina...
...merely be cause they were naturally ambitious, but because ambition was demanded by the conventions. Perhaps this is what he meant to convey to the lady who, on seeing him devour a huge meal, remarked : "You seem to have a very good appetite, Mr. Trol lope!" "None at all, madam," he replied, "but, thank God, I am very greedy...
Idealization, Disillusion. Then Madam Chiang came to this country and she captured American imagination as few foreigners ever had, and certainly as no Asiatic ever had. Our estimate of the Chinese soared still higher-too high. To hear many Americans talk, including commentators and columnists, practically every Chinese was wholly selfless in his devotion to his country, patriotically sacrificing everything for freedom and his nation's welfare, and so forth. We who had lived there were concerned, and Chinese leaders were even more disturbed, because we and they knew that it was not a true picture of the situation...
...appointments were generally applauded. He rid himself of the three weakest members of the existing cabinet: Wickard, Biddle and Madam Perkins. Into their places moved New Mexico's Congressman Clinton P. Anderson, 49, as Secretary of Agriculture; Texas' Tom Clark, 45, as Attorney General; and Washington's onetime Senator Lewis B. Schwellenbach, 50, as Secretary of Labor...
...Gypsy Woman. Mother Wells confronted Elizabeth. "Madam." she demanded, "do you know me?" "No," said Elizabeth, "I don't know that I've ever seen you before." But then, as the posse stood flabbergasted, Bet turned to the gypsy. "It was that old woman," she said, "that cut my stays...