Word: seene
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...duchesses and 200 stout Yorkshiremen from the village of Harewood, who had come up to town in Sunday best to salute their young landlord. As the bridal automobile swept away from the St. James's Palace reception that followed, a single tiny Cinderella-like silver slipper could be seen bobbing in the dust behind...
Devaluation considerably improves Britain's changes of getting on her feet, Mason feels. "Exports will rise to the United States, and Britain will now be in the competition for the important Latin American market." Twin stumbling blocks seen by Mason are the possibilities that America will up her tariffs and that the increased cost of British imports may set off inflation in Britain. But still optimistic, Mason doubts that either of these two possible dangers will materialize...
...weak position to begin with, and made the whole game a tough problem from the point of view of physical resources. In addition to this, Lou Little confided after the game that his boys responded to his twentieth anniversary as Columbia coach by being "higher than I've ever seen a team before...
...appears to me," said Don Quixote, "that translating from one language into another . . . is like gazing at a Flemish tapestry with the wrong side out: even though the figures are visible, they are full of threads that obscure the view and are not bright and smooth as when seen from the other side...
...audience loved it. All evening long the people had loved it. When the spotlight made grinding noises Mr. Ives only had to look up at it and the hall resounded with laughter. A more in formal entertainer has seldom been seen in the home of the Boston symphony. He made private jokes with the people in the front row, talked about his parrot, and explained several of his songs...