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...officially scolded for snapping at a whisky broker on What's My Line?: "I'm tired of looking at your face." Unlike U.S. audiences, Britons win no prizes on their quiz shows. The successful challenger who manages to stump the panel is rewarded with a parchment scroll, suitable for framing and hanging in the front parlor...
...drying scrawls of ink on parchment attested that Germany was a world power once more-for good or evil...
...impossible!" cried the Ruhr's Westdeutsche Neue Presse. The Germans, cold and businesslike, did not want to dwell on these past horrors. The Jews, an official delegation from Israel, did not want the Germans to consider their unpayable debt paid. So no one talked about the wasted bodies, parchment-white, stacked high in Nazi extermination camps. Yet that was what the negotiations were really about last week, in a suburb of The Hague...
...political and reflective and practical and poetical and reserved. They say to themselves, "A joke is a joke"-meaning that it ought to be a joke. They could not understand why Herbert should have raised a subscription and worked twelve hours a day among legal records and historic parchment to take away their right to drink whisky for 24 hours a day. They said he was a lunatic or a bolshevik. They got the Attorney-General to fight the case, and won it. But the judges would not allow their costs. The judges were logical...
...Garter Principal King of Arms Sir George Bellew - flanked by the Earl Marshal, two more Kings of Arms, six Heralds and three heraldic Pursuivants, all dressed like himself in tabards and cockaded hats and bearing staffs of gold, silver and ebony - stepped forward and raised a huge parchment...