Word: paradoxe
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Anyone delighted by the richness of British character could find it served up on a heaping platter in the House of Commons last week, steaming with honest emotion, thick with puzzlement, piquant with paradox and much like the late Diamond Jim Brady's favorite fish sauce which was so good that "if you poured some of it over a turkish towel, you could eat it all." Epicures for this sort of dish, Edward of Wales and the Soviet Ambassador sat down, elbow-to-elbow, just above the House of Commons' clock...
Thus was broached in paradox one of the "real issues" in British life today, all of which were dodged in the recent general election by Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin. So desperate are conditions in the coal fields that only some 700,000 miners remain who could vote today, whereas there were 1,125,000 in 1926-the year in which the coal strike provoked the General Strike...
...country up & up to the ultimate fulcrum on which Europe's future turns. This may be II Duce's unlucky 13th year, but with the hammer blows of 52 nations ringing out in an anvil chorus of sanctions last week, it was significant to the point of paradox that not Italy but Ethiopia was still being called "the underdog...
...paradox of the crisis last week was that Belgium's three major parties, the Catholics, the Socialists and the Liberals, all contributed Ministers to the Cabinet of "National Union" formed by Professor van Zeeland at the invitation of His Majesty. The politicians' theory seemed to be that, since all three parties had pledged themselves to the voters to maintain the belga at its 1926 value in relation to gold, they all might as well cooperate in devaluing it further. Never was the clear mandate of an entire electorate more flatly disregarded. Soon the Chamber gave the van Zeeland...
...Byron, Romantic Paradox," is a defense of the man as an artist who "knew what he was doing and why." It forms a stimulating and novel approach, a treatment equally without impudence and undue awe of the glamorous genius who today is commonly either relentlessly attacked or blindly upheld...