Word: short
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Rothschilds once practiced their financial wizardry.* Delegates from 19 OEEC areas had come to La Muette to work out a new Intra-European Payments plan. After hours of futile argument, Belgium's Paul-Henri Spaak suggested that the meeting adjourn. Britain's Sir Stafford Cripps cut him short with a crisp insistence. "Gentlemen, I have to go back to England tomorrow," he said, "but my plane does not leave until 6 in the morning. I am at your disposal until then...
...seance continued. Once it looked as though Mussolini's own ghost had returned when one Luigi Filosa, a Fascist henchman, got up to speak; Filosa was short and bald, stood squarely with his hands on his hips and stuck out his lower lip in characteristic Mussolinian truculence. From dark corners of the auditorium drifted snatches of Fascist hymns. A philosophy professor, who shouted: "Democracy is a fraud!" was arrested by the watchful secret service men. The hysterical speakers babbled on. Yelled a woman teacher: "They come, these Americans, these ignorant bushmen, to show us-the heirs of Michaelangelo...
...short time later the Communist-controlled government of Bulgaria started down the same road when...
...moments, he listened idly to a rain crow's mourning call, and squinted at his herd of Jersey cows browsing on the green pastures. At 60 seconds past 6 a.m., preceded by eight bars of Dixie and a short commercial, Farm Editor Cope leaned toward a porch microphone and ad-libbed: "I never saw a prettier day . . ." By the. time his chatty half-hour broadcast was over, Cope had worked up an appetite for a heaping platter of fried eggs, sausages and hot biscuits, washed down by more coffee and bourbon. Then he settled down to write his daily...
Quartet. Bright commentary on British foibles, inspired by four Somerset Maugham short stories (TIME...