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Reticent about the quid pro quo, which will presumably involve the entrance of Austria and Hungary into an Eastern European bloc with Italy and the Little Entente, General Gömbös exclaimed: "My conversations with Premier Mussolini have shown the complete agreement of our views on all questions, political and economic. I am very pleased...
...session over, Democratic Senators and Representatives last week went racing to Postmaster Farley with demands for a hefty plumtree shaking. They had delivered their quid. It was now up to the Administration to produce...
Rich Lord Peter Wimsey turns advertiser to solve a dubious death. He earns his four quid a week, writes many a jesting line ("The Skeleton in the Water-closet," "Snagsbury's Soups Are Best for the Troops"). The burlesqued but convincing description of an advertising agency is from first-hand knowledge; Author Dorothy Sayres has been a successful copywriter in a London agency. More than that, she is a member of London's famed Detection Club, an informal organization for promoting honesty and high literary standards in fictional crime-solving. "No Mumbo-Jumbo, Jiggery-Pokery, Death Rays...
...Pope then presented the names of his nominees, inquiring in each case, "Quid vobis videtur?" ("How does this seem to you?") The assembled cardinals nodded, doffed their skullcaps in silent assent. This procedure no outsider...
Sirs: If I had the "ungovernable temper" which you ascribe to me, I would - * in your editor's ear as a quid pro quo for the way you libel me in your issue of Dec. 5; instead, I'll give you the facts to take the place of your misrepresentations and let you suffer the chagrin that the truth would have made a more romantic story than your fiction...