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...nostrils. . . . But the eyes were the dark, mocking eyes of [an emperor's] slave-the slave who ironically obeyed, watched, humored and judged the master who could never understand him; the slave upon whom the master depended utterly, for his amusement, for his instruction, for the sanction of his power; the slave who wrote the fables of beasts and men." Muses young Isherwood: "I knew that face. It was the face of a political situation, an epoch. The face of Central Europe...
...measured complaints of Democrat Powell and his 25-year-old wife were prompt-and promptly relayed to the press. In Minneapolis for a concert, Miss Scott told newsmen she thought the First Lady's action "looks as if she gives sanction" to the D.A.R. action...
...Janeiro next October. In Washington, it was rumored that Secretary of State James Francis Byrnes would withdraw Ambassador Braden from Buenos Aires as a slap at the Argentine militarists, make him Undersecretary of State. From Washington, too, came a report that the U.S. has already ordered its first economic sanction against Argentina: in the future, Argentine ships may not use the Panama Canal. Reason: their two vessels a month overtax the Canal...
...almost worse than the actual waste of taxpayers' money, he thought, was the Army's lordly and casual way of doing business without Congressional sanction. On the basis of Army estimates of costs, Congress had willingly appropriated funds. But Mr. Engel, scratching around, found that the Army had asked for many, many more millions than it needed...
...lending sanction to this experiment, the Committee necessarily surrenders its freedom of action. In name it may be at liberty to take such action as later circumstance demands. But good faith has its compulsions, and the presumption runs strongly to success...