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...taking up Trieste, he recalled how Pietro Nenni, 'now leader of Italy's fellow-traveling Socialists, had once, while in the Foreign Ministry, instructed Italian diplomats to press for a Trieste proposal that Nenni now opposed. It was a telling point, but Pella did not try to rub it in. Instead, he faced Nenni and said simply: "Those were instructions that redound to your honor...
...financial columnist for the Boston Post, Washington Waters often sounds like an irrepressible optimist. "The stock market," says his column, "may truly be a kind of Aladdin's lamp which will produce great riches for those who know how to rub it." But the rub, as Washington Waters is well aware, is knowing how. Waters knows. He is one of the few financial columnists in the world who can write about the stock market that way with real authority. By rubbing the lamp the right way himself, he has amassed a fortune of $20 million plus in stocks...
there's the rub, For in that sleepe of death, what dreames
...India's Hooghly River one day last February sailed a weird vessel which made even the drowsiest citizens rub their eyes. It looked like a Viking galley, and standing in its prow were warriors dressed like Viking sea kings of old. At Calcutta's Out-ram Ghat pier, one stepped ashore and delivered a pole-sized replica of a new cigarette made by India's Imperial Tobacco Co. Its name: Sea King...
...leading French pediatrician who owns a chateau near Chartres. Rabbits are not public enemies in France. Their natural enemies, including 1,800,000 Frenchmen with hunting licenses, keep them from eating the country bare. But. Dr. Armand-Delille's estate was skittering with rabbits, so he decided to rub them out in the latest scientific manner...