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...blunt. Among the urbane Oxford and Cambridge tones of the House of Commons, her voice sounds rough and raucous as a Liverpool fishwife's. In the mannered cut-and-thrust of debate, her points are as emphatic as the slap of a wet cod across a face. Newspapers poke sly fun at her, other M.P.s snicker at her, county squires snort: "She's a disgrace to public life." But among her constituents in Liverpool's grimy dockland, Mrs. Bessie Braddock, M.P., is a beloved and admired champion...
...warmth and lavishness of Café Filho's reception sprang from the abiding affection the Portuguese feel for their huge ex-colony. The affection is mutual. Though Brazilians and Portuguese love to poke fun at each others' accents, customs and national traits, the ties of sentiment between the two countries are notably stronger than those between Spain and the former Spanish colonies in the New World -partly because Brazil won her independence from Portugal (in 1822) without gunfire and bloodshed. When Portugal got into a quarrel with India last year over the tiny colony of Goa, Brazil sent...
...year-old Galileo tried to poke his telescope through the stuffed flue of the Ptolemaic-Aristotelian universe, and ran into trouble. In any other hands, the telescope might have been only a passing novelty. In Galileo's it pointed back to a neglected but explosive treatise called Revolution of the Celestial Orbs, written a half-century before by Astronomer Nicolaus Copernicus. On mathematical grounds, Copernicus had questioned the natural philosophy of Aristotle and the astronomy of Ptolemy which taught that the earth stood still in the center of the universe while the heavens revolved around it every 24 hours...
...most splendid flare-ups of his career. Clipped in the head by Boston Forward Hal Laycoe's high-swinging stick, the Rocket hardly bothered to brush the blood out of his eyes before he flattened Laycoe. He also managed to give Linesman Cliff Thompson a poke...
...beauties, one Spanish, one Irish, become friends, and all goes well until a man comes between them. He is an Oxford-educated rancher, but a Don Juan rather than a don. One of the girls ropes him, of course. The other gets a consolation prize: a mere unlarned cow poke, he is, who did not even get to Cambridge. Miss Harriet Townshend is vintage Kathleen Norris-sweet, inoffensive, forgettable...