Word: ridiculouse
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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In Manhattan's Stork Club a group of café debs elected Betty Cordon, 18, official No. 1 Glamor Girl of the new season. Particulars: her height is 5 ft. 1½ in., weight 100 lb., waist 21 in., hair blonde, eyes grey-green. Her father is a banker...
"Men wearing short pants look absurd in these serious, austere surroundings. Grown men with hairy legs barely covered and short panties resemble ridiculous absent-minded professors. To be sure there was a short-pants campaign last year . . . but this mediocre idea proved a failure."
Welles regards all extremes as ridiculous. To him the problem of post-war peace is primarily diplomatic: arrange means whereby trade will flow freely throughout the world, establish by negotiation an international diplomacy based on the Good Neighbor policy, insure the domination of the world by the Western Hemisphere, and...
* Oddest story of the brief war came from Ecuador authorities, who charged that Peru had 3,000 Japanese soldiers in its front lines. It had been rumored earlier that Japan had offered Peru the use of 5,000 trained Japanese reservists for an attack on Ecuador. Said Peru: the report...
> The Dansk National-Socialistisk-Arbejderpartei (Danish Nazi party) under ridiculous Doctor Fritz Clausen has only 30,000 members, but there are nine other Danish-Nazi splinter groups. The Germans encourage this splintering to forward the disintegration of the country's political system. They hope to absorb Denmark whole.