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...tragic figure. Unfortunately, Hornblower chooses to portray the earl as a supercilious and excessively obvious double-dealer whose inward writhings cause him more annoyance than pain. Hand on hips, he delights in running his tongue over his lips in a gesture that reduces him to the level of a snake. It's hard to imagine what either queen could see in such an effeminate courtier...
Below the Snake. Measured against the pound or lira, the French franc looks strong. Measured against the deutsche mark, it seems weak-mostly because prices are rising more than 31½ times as fast in France (an annual rate of 9.6%) as in Germany. France is a member of the "snake," a group of eight European countries that have pledged to keep currency-exchange rates within a 4.5% range of fluctuation; the franc is trading right at the bottom of that range. Some French industrialists would welcome a devaluation as a means of making French products cheaper abroad, and some...
That goes for Clarkson, too, another of those true snake pits out in the New York boondocks that takes its home ice advantage quite seriously. And as for B.U., all you have to do is look at Harvard's record against the Terriers before you decide to forget them...
...first national code of ethics in 1908. Originally, the ad ban was intended to help restore dignity to the legal profession, which had been badly tattered by attorneys who put up large billboards or even hawked their services on the open streets with all the restraint of a snake-oil salesman. The prohibition on promotion never came under broad assault until the past year, when it was attacked by consumer groups, Government trustbusters and even some lawyers. So at the A.B.A.'s midyear meeting in Philadelphia last week, advertising-which was not even on the agenda a year...
Lady, you got snake eyes like the dice...