Word: neveral
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...what was left of Solingen's output. When peace came, trade barriers in the Allies' dismantling policy, lack of manpower and the inroads of foreign mass production were new handicaps to the craftsmen of Solingen. But inch by inch Solingen fought its way back, and the steelmakers never forgot their faithful customers, many of them barbers who would not attack their customers' whiskers with anything but a Solingen razor...
...point a rumor spread that the learned judges were thinking of ordering a bathing-suit parade for their own eyes alone. Following the maxim expressed by one woman, "Never trust old gentlemen who are not too old," several mothers of contestants turned to Juan Gualberto Cardinal Guevara for advice. The cardinal gravely informed the tribunal that a bathing-suit parade, public or private, would be contrary to religion and modesty. The girls appeared fully clothed...
Society swells and bohemians alike flocked to Foujita's exhibitions. Utrillo and Modigliani swept him off on their absinthe binges, though he himself never touched a drop. Matisse dropped around to ask how he made his lines so thin and firm (he does it by holding the brush vertically, in the Chinese way, and drawing from the shoulder instead of the wrist), and solemnly assured him that had he been born in Europe his name would have been Picasso. The Lucky Strike people asked Foujita for a testimonial; his response (for use in Paris newspapers): "Women like to kiss...
...Gladys left Liverpool Street carrying a bedroll, a kettle and saucepan, a suitcase of canned food, ninepence in cash and a thin packet of travelers' checks. Said she to her mother & father: "Never get me out or pay ransom for me. God is sufficient...
What About You? One day Gladys Aylward, deeply troubled, picked up a mission pamphlet which said: "There are millions in China that have never heard the name of Jesus Christ. WHAT ABOUT You?" She knew, then, what she must...