Word: roome
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Coca-Colonized? As the Foreign Ministers continued their talks in the Parrot Room of the French Foreign Ministry, Schuman grew increasingly nervous. With a foreign policy debate scheduled in the French Assembly next week which could easily topple France's shaky cabinet, he kept Premier Bidault constantly informed of the trend of talk at the Quai d'Orsay, and once Acheson and Bevin had to wait while Schuman rushed off to brief an emergency cabinet session. The Reds promptly set up a howl that Schuman was selling France down the Rhine. The Communist L'Humanité gibed...
Stowed away in a Montreal lumber room The Discobolus standeth and turneth his face
...opening day, visitors slowly circled the room, later clustered in a corner to congratulate the artist, who favored each of them with a slight bow, a miniature smile, and a small, limp hand. The ring which he had once had tattooed on his finger was concealed by a wide gold band, his tattooed watch by one that told the right time. It was not easy to connect the gentle and sedate old Japanese with the Foujita...
...stack of "reading-for-tonight" papers on the floor mounted to the toppling point. At 50, Robert Hutchins was slightly mellower in manner. But he could still get excited-now puffing a Fatima and pacing about, now plumping himself down in an easy chair to declaim across the room. Long ago, he had made up his mind what the ideal university should be. He thought Chicago was beginning to show signs of becoming one. "It is not a very good university," he said recently, in typical Hutchins-ese. "It is simply the best there...
...Room permission at Yale isn't much unlike room permission at Harvard. In fact Yale's closing hours for the Crimson--Eli weekend will run a close parallel to what they would have been if the game were in Cambridge...