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Hopefully, OPA said there would be more goods, at lower prices, in November. But suit and overcoat manufacturers scoffed. In their opinion men's clothing will be in skimpy supply for another six months or more...
Privy O.K. The American invasion has been so successful that the most determined British purist cannot even counterattack without unconsciously employing Americanisms. Most Englishmen would be astonished to learn, for instance, that businessman, governmental, graveyard, law-abiding, lengthy, overcoat and telegram are of U.S. origin. And even Noah Webster would be surprised to learn that O.K. ("without question the most successful of all Americanisms, old or new") has recently been approved by the Judicial Committee of His Majesty's Privy Council, which "decided formally that inscribing O.K. upon a legal document 'meant that the details contained...
...longer. The Japs did their best to convince the U.S. that only soft words would work. Before the Potsdam declaration came out (see INTERNATIONAL) a Tokyo broadcaster blandly counseled the U.S. to watch its words, quoted an old fable: the gentle sun could make a man take off his overcoat more quickly than the strong wind. At Potsdam the U.S. and her Pacific ally, Britain, settled for a strong, hot breeze...
...narrow path, unlocked the garden gate with his key, walked across the road ... a total distance of 300 yards. At 7:30 he rang the bell . . . and said quite clearly to [his landlady], 'I must go to the bathroom.' He was helped off with his overcoat and assisted to the bathroom. ... He died three hours later...
...grant asylum to his wife, Donna Rachele, and their children. The Swiss emphatically declined. About 6 a.m. Mussolini sneaked northward presumably in the hope of reaching Germany. According to one report he joined a German truck convoy trying unsuccessfully to disguise himself in a German officer's overcoat. He was spotted near Dongo and held for arrest...