Word: rates
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...attract British winter sportsmen, the stunting bonifaces advertised that in settlement of Swiss hotel bills the pound sterling will be accepted as worth 16 Swiss francs flat. Last week the pound was worth 15.31 Swiss francs on international exchange. In effect the Swiss hotelkeepers had merely cut their rates. But Paris seethed with angry talk: "The Swiss, like the Germans, are creating an unfair cut-rate currency. What is the difference between the 'tourist franc' in Geneva and the 'blocked mark' in Berlin...
...beacons are pale orange globes fixed atop seven-foot poles at intersections too minor to rate a stop-&-go light. They glow continuously, drive motorists wild by giving pedestrians continuous right of way. To get past a Belisha Beacon one must drive at a crawl permitting instant stops should a pedestrian wish to cross. No other subject in years has so roused Punch, which now prints an average of two Hore-Belishing cartoons a week. Asks an irate female motorist in a recent cartoon across which smug pedestrians stroll (see cut): "Don't you loathe these beastly Belisha faces...
...funny and somehow I did not feel that this was really pretty funny. Perhaps I haven't got that gay, carefree, New Yorker attitude of which Happy Bob has so long been the standard bearer, or perhaps Comforting Thoughts on the Bison don't apply to me, at any rate there were large portions of the book over which I was seen to nod just a touch...
...course, there are sections which seem to catch some of the old fire, they may have been written some time ago, but at any rate such tasty little essays as Bargains in Butterfly Equipment, and Some Figures on Wind Velocity may bring a few good laughs from any Boston audience...
DOSTOEVSKY-Avrahm Yarmolinsky - Harcourt, Brace ($3.75). First-rate life of Russia's great novelist, by the Chief of the Slavonic Division of Manhattan's Public Library...