Word: notes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Quid Gloves. In London, Scotland Yard discreetly looked into the matter of a counterfeit ?1 note that turned up in the bar of the House of Commons...
...cable repair ship, said the U.S. note, had found in preliminary investigations that one cable had been badly scraped and scuffed for about a mile east of the break. The cable itself had obviously got fouled in the Novorossisk's trawling gear, been raised to the deck, then cut to release the nets. In all, there were twelve cuts in the five cables (nine tension breaks and three man-made cuts), all made in the vicinity of the trawler's operations. The U.S. reserved the right to make claims for damages and demanded that the Soviets take "such...
Telephones jingled in five Baghdad embassies. A procession of limousines, national flags aflutter from their fenders, drove up outside Iraq's yellow brick Foreign Ministry. One by one, the ambassadors of Britain, Turkey, Iran and Pakistan marched inside to receive a note from Iraq's Foreign Minister Hashim Jawad. When they had left, the U.S.'s gangling Ambassador John Jernegan was ushered in and got the same word verbally. Later, at a press conference to which Western correspondents were not invited, Premier Abdul Karim Kassem, Iraq's strongman, announced publicly what the ambassadors had been told...
...private banker to Maximilian I, and Charles V was so heavily in his debt that Jakob once wrote him a saucy note: "May I remind Your Majesty that without my financial assistance you would not be sitting on your throne." As lenders to hard-pressed popes, Jakob and his brother managed papal finances in all of Germany, Bohemia, Hungary and Scandinavia...
Buck Jones, Hoot Gibson, Tim McCoy, Bob Steele had little to add to the formula, and the singing cowboys, Gene Autry and later, Roy Rogers, added little more than a sour note. Nevertheless, during the '30s the oats ripened rapidly. Gary Cooper, a sort of Abe Lincoln in Levi's, and John Wayne, a smoke-wagon Siegfried, represented in different ways a more mature attempt on the part of the western hero to behave like a man. And in such pictures as John Ford's Stagecoach and William Wellman's The Ox-Bow Incident, the mythological...