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Nothing in the World is quicker than a British budget. In London, in Cape Town, in Canberra or in Ottawa all that the responsible minister has to do is to state that on item of revenue, tax or tariff is changed and it is changed. New revenue rates are automatically effective unless the budget is rejected by Parliament-which almost never happens. Therefore when Hon. Mr. Bennett rose to speak in Ottawa last week he held in his hand the fiscal fate of Canada. Bang-he upped letter postage between Canadian cities from 2? to 3?! Bang-up went...
...Pulitzer used to wear a beard. "Bob" Scripps has been growing one since October. From a dubious trowel beard it has evolved into a handsome spade affair, Messianic full face and like Italos Balbo's in profile. Partner Howard's visage remains the same-chipmunkish, irrepressible, oriental. Quicker to read than their faces are their respective offices, high in the New York Central Building. One office (the door of which is rarely shut) is a harmony of brown oak with beamed ceiling, paneled walls, high bookshelves. The leaded panes of the windows are stained with nautical legends-fish...
...them go." Should you say, "I feel bad" or ''I feel badly"? Says Thurber: "As a general thing, if the illness or pain really exists, and is acute, it is better to use the shorter word 'bad,' because it is more easily said and will bring assistance quicker...
...family that he cannot have State aid unless he agrees not to have any more children. If he refuses, State aid shall also be refused him or else he shall be locked up. ... In our society a man with a small family finds that he gets ahead quicker and that his smaller number of children can have greater advantages. All of this may seem very undemocratic, but heredity and biology are very undemocratic...
...come up too soon and lost way delaying. They had raced a couple of miles on the windward leg before Skipper Vanderbilt caught up. Thrice they split tacks. Then Enterprise in the weather berth slid into her first lead. Her mechanical devices for sail-control again made her quicker coming about. Still, it was a good race, the closest yet, and on the Erin Sir Thomas Lipton was enjoying it. He was standing on the bridge, looking off at the boats, when suddenly he stiffened. He put up one of his big old hands to shade his eyes...