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Since the action takes place in England, the costuming department has obtained the appropriate black wigs for the gentlemen of the court, and the customary wigs. These so-called "scratch wigs" are a traditional survival from the time of George III, when they were prescribed "as wear befitting the dignity of a court...
Starting from scratch 31 years ago, Ibn Saud has successfully bluffed the British, reduced hostile cities by siege after bloody siege (in 1924-25 he besieged Medina, where Mohammed lies buried, for 15 months) and hacked out a kingdom of 4,000,000 souls in the middle of Arabia (900,000 square miles). Accredited to the Court of Ibn Saud are exactly two diplomats, the British Minister and the Soviet Minister. Last week their Legations were in at the christening, flattered His Majesty with notes of congratulation in English and Russian which he, peering through his thick, steel-rimmed spectacles...
Sirs: I am a poor but honest employe of a Stock Exchange firm-trying to scratch out a living in a barnyard where worms are all but extinct. But regardless, I am preyed upon by a member of the firm, by name, Irving D. Rossheim, who early each Friday morning, at an hour wholly unnatural to him, comes to my desk and seizes my copy of TIME. And this, despite a copy which awaits him at home. Has a poor man no defense against such predatory action? Can I appeal to the U. S. Government? Can I appeal...
Denver's growth from scratch to 300,000 has been accomplished in a human lifetime. And culture has kept pace with commerce on the Colorado plain. Denver's able Civic Symphony Orchestra gives twelve concerts each year. Its A Capella choir is one of the four U. S. best. Denver's businessmen have a literary circle, the Cactus Club which writes and produces its own plays...
Translating vaisseau from the French, a student wrote 'on his scratch pad: "vessle, vessil, vassel." Then, apparently giving it up, he thought of a synonym, wrote "bote...