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...Some people," said Churchill, "think that our foreign policy toward Spain is best expressed by drawing comical or even rude caricatures of General Franco, but I think there is more than that." Specifically: Spain might have wrecked Allied plans for the North African invasion. As many as 600 invasion planes at one time crowded Gibraltar's airfield within range of Spanish guns; a great fleet of Allied shipping rested in Spanish waters, under Spanish guns. But the Spaniards did not interfere. If they had, "the Strait of Gibraltar would have been closed, and all access to the Mediterranean would...
...Stokowski discovered the orchestration was only for piano and string quintet, sent out a call for the composer, meanwhile attempted to proceed. When Ponce arrived, Stokowski erupted in French. He semaphored and windmilled. His elderly victim commented later: "What a surprise ... a furious being, wildly gesticulating at me . . . very rude. ..." Stokowski adjourned the rehearsal until 7:30 a.m. on the day of the broadcast...
Copper-Bellied Corpse. The American folk who emerge from this lore are robust, daredevil, imaginative, fond of broad humor, tender love, great deeds, crude, rude, sometimes full of noble sentiment, sometimes intolerant. They glorify outlaws (Jesse James, Wild Bill Hickok, Billy the Kid), poke fun at woodsmen (Mike Fink, Davy Crockett), sanctify Johnny Appleseed. The U.S. gift for tall talk is flaunted in Sven, the Hundred Proof Irish man, and speeches by General Buncombe ("Sir, we want elbow room - the continent, the whole continent - and nothing but the continent"). The U.S. talent for epithet is flaunted...
Tube Talk. In Manhattan, the German language newspaper Aufbau, conducting a department to teach refugees American manners, received a reader query: "If I feel insulted by a rude person - in the subway, for instance - what should I do? I can't very well begin to swear at him." The answer: "Certainly not. You just give him a dirty look, and you say, 'Really...
...reciting Prometheus Unbound, an enthusiasm for the Empire-building of Cecil Rhodes. From Cambridge he went back to the South Africa of diamond fields and booming gold mines, of growing friction between British and Boers, who had trekked northward from the Cape to the Transvaal to free their rude, patriarchal, Bible-reading lives of uitlander (foreign) rule...