Word: notes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...President presented the world with an appealing slogan. "Open skies" sounded like a Good Thing, because Americans are good at free competition so long as it is clean and "open." "Open skies" called to mind Woodrow Wilson, fair play, and possibly even Blue Skies. It was, in short, a note of hope. Perhaps it still is. But it is also an inadequate and delusory approach to the problem of disarmament...
...People note your case with the whites...
...claim to be walking in the footsteps of Mahatma Gandhi drive big foreign cars, surround themselves with red-liveried lackeys, command private railroad cars, scratch like fishwives for the trappings of pomp and prestige. Nehru recently penned a sharp note to several state ministers warning them to get rid of their retainers and private railroad cars. "Even President Eisenhower," wrote the Pandit, "drives about the countryside without flags all over...
Tomorrow, Maybe. In Oldham. England, a dairy was lined $5.60 for improper bottle-washing after Mrs. Evelyn Schofield complained that she opened a bottle and poured out a soggy, red-ink note saying "No milk today...
...that the play starts and ends on a mediocre note, for it is full of outstanding comedy in the middle. Moreover not even Edward Stuart's effective this-is-the-essence-of-Vienna music can quite tie the ten playlets together across the rather long scene changes. But there is so much brightness in each of the seven central playlets that the whole production creates a frivolous, very often delightful atmosphere...