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Says a rival publisher: "Sir Frank will stop at nothing to save a quid or earn one." Yet he has been known to bet $7,-ooo on the flip of a coin, and some of that same compulsive gambler's plunge led him to challenge for the America...
...dinner in 1934. His potluck for politics held good when the Senate rejected a Republican attempt, 62-30, to return the nomination over some alleged finagling in the 1946 purchase of a Government-surplus shipyard by Entrepreneur Louis Wolfson. But a regular Irish stew may await McCloskey on the Quid Sod. Demonstrating his Gaelic at a Washington dinner, he bellowed: "Fag a bealach!" Rudely reverberating in Tara's halls, it loosely means...
...address in Latin that paid tribute to 17 cardinals who have died in the past three years, and after praising the courage of churchmen behind the Iron Curtain, the Pope read off the names of his choices. At the end he asked, in the time-honored ritual phrase, "Quid vobis videtur? [What do you think?]" In the sign of an assent that is now automatic, the cardinals doffed their scarlet zucchetta (skullcaps). The Pope pronounced the words of appointment: "By the authority of Almighty God, of the Holy Apostles Peter and Paul and of ourself, we appoint"-and here...
...checkbook journalism has inspired in the heart of many a felon the conviction that crime does pay. Said Stuart Campbell, editor of the People (circ. 5,450,727): "It's getting to the point that when you ask anyone the color of his hat, he says, 'Six quid and I'll start talking...
...have us withdraw some of our military equipment does not demonstrate that it is contrary to our interest to do do. One may disagree with particular proposals, but to suggest the process of proceeding unilaterally in a direction that may be to our mutual interest without a promised quid pro quo is hardly irresponsible. On the contrary, I know no one familiar with the field who suggests that the United States limit itself to the process of verbal negotiation...