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...pure irony which made some of the Bond Clubbers squirm: "You have always protected your home market. The infant industries of America have remained in swaddling clothes ever since I can remember. You have put up a tariff wall which has enabled them to grow up to manhood and protects them today. In fact, the longer you go on, the higher it gets. Of course, you never have varied, and I don't think ever will vary it or should vary...
...only one, not excepting the King & Queen, who has been able to manage the Prince of Wales in his obstreperous childhood or his willful manhood...
Women: Aged 12, he was married to the present Mrs. Gandhi, then also aged 12 but in the bud of womanhood which blows so early in India. Mr. Gandhi, who at 12 enjoyed the prospect rather than the substance of manhood, became troubled and ashamed when his child-wife openly mocked him for his immaturity...
...million Japanese went to the polls last week in the second general election since Japan adopted universal manhood suffrage. Nearly all of them voted for Prime Minister Yuko "Shishi" (i. e. "The Lion") Hamaguchi. The Minseito, his party, gained 101 new seats (giving them 273 of the 466 parliamentary seats) in the most impressive vote of confidence given any Japanese Government in a generation. Bristle-haired Prime Minister "Shishi" who had led his campaign himself on a platform of government economy, balancing the budget without foreign loans, foreign conciliation, restoration of the gold standard, was delighted. Delighted too, were foreign...
...been buying her rice, occupying her bed. As she describes him, her raging husband perceives that the description fits one whom he has seen killed that very day. Then the tragic truth is made manifest-that the slipper belongs to the couple's own son, grown to manhood while his father was away...