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...portrait of myself lurking in the pages of contemporary literature. . . . All alike are hostile: which is significant. . . . The main question among my acquaintances has been whether it is a respectable big devil that inhabits me, or a little mean one." His only answer to the question is to shrug his other cheek...
...Wartime losers who now propose to shrug off their post-war penalties, Turkey had picked the best time to make the best case. Germany last month had provided a fine, fresh precedent by its rough & ready remilitarization of the Rhineland. The permanent security of the Dardanelles had been guaranteed jointly at Lausanne by Britain, France and Italy, all three of whom were in a serious snarl last week at Geneva. Turks had a firm friend and warm supporter in France's new ally, Soviet Russia, which would secretly like to see the Dardanelles fortified against the navies of capitalist...
...Schoop comedy at its best. An innocent youth, Fridolin, reluctantly leaves his mother, ventures out into the world where his trials are many. He encounters seductive women, blustering athletes, religious fanatics, gets involved in a marriage and a host of bothersome in-laws, deserts them all with a shrug to find some other life. Throughout the many scenes Trudi Schoop was the picture of bewilderment, a small pathetic figure in a black sleeveless tunic, an absurd clerical hat. Her pantomime was always effective. She danced occasionally but she was just as communicative standing still. She spoke with her eyes...
Like many a diseuse, Sarah Osnath-Halevy gained telling effects with a .shrug of a shoulder, a lift of an eye. More marvelous, though, was what she could suggest with her long, slim hands alone. Each finger seemed to have a definite part, each pose its own particular beauty. That such hands should have washed dishes and scrubbed floors seemed almost incredible. But it is a fact that Sarah Osnath-Halevy was a domestic servant before she made her mark as an interpreter of songs. Her family, driven out by Arabs, left Yemen when she was 4. On the long...
...today, willing to take all the steps of the aggressor which will inevitably plunge not only Italy and herself, but other European nations not in the slightest involved, into war. 4) That her interest in Italy's Ethiopian occupation is entirely selfish, else why did she so cavalierly shrug her shoulders at Japan's machinations in Manchuria, meanwhile leaving the U.S. "out on the limb" in precarious single protest. 5) That not content with getting the nod from the League, she is attempting to lead this country step by step into a morass of commitments and implied "community...