Word: muchness
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Correspondents were at a loss to know why the Italians, just at the height of the tourist season, had deprived themselves of badly needed foreign exchange. The Italian explanations were not much help. First, it was announced that foreigners were ordered out because of widespread "espionage" in the South Tyrol. Next, they had to go for "military" reasons...
There had been altogether too much discussion, it was said, about who should succeed Il Duce, Dino Grandi or his bearded "twin," Italo Balbo, leader of the famed mass flight to the Chicago Fair. Grandi was "exiled" as Ambassador to the Court of St. James's in 1933 and Hero Balbo was made Governor of Libya, in which hot and barren land he sits to this day. Last week Ambassador Count Grandi was recalled from London to become Minister of Justice, and observers wondered whether he had not again been kicked upstairs...
High-spirited, witty, gay, Edda Ciano has little respect for the conventions. In Shanghai she picked up much U. S. slang from Navy officers' wives and subsequently shocked many a diplomatic dowager with her indiscriminate use of "boloney." Once she surprised Sir Eric Drummond (now Lord Perth) by saying "Oakie doak, Sir Eric!" Her first-born child, Fabrizio, she nicknamed the "Little Chink." She caused an uproar at a full-dress diplomatic dinner in Peking by showing up in a tailored suit while her husband wore a dinner coat...
Twenty-odd years ago in Sweden a baby was born with no ears. In every other way he was normal. When the boy was old enough to go to school, he rather enjoyed being a phenomenon, joked about it with his mates. In adolescence he became much more sensitive. He could hear perfectly-but instead of outer ears he had two repulsive stumps...
...cudgel in 1934, it has conked no heads to speak of, and last week Steve Early turned up in Atlantic City, reiterated the "unofficial" reassurances of his White House chief that that big stick is just a lath. Unfortunately, at the moment the big stick was very much in the minds of short-wave broadcasters...