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Colossal ineptitude had been Foreign Minister Ribbentrop's hallmark.* When he visited Britain in 1937, peddling collaboration with Hitler against Russia, he greeted King George with a Nazi salute and earned the sobriquet of "Herr Brickendrop." At a dinner with Winston Churchill, Ribbentrop blurted: "The next war will be different for we will have the Italians on our side." Churchill grinned and cracked: "That's only fair-we had 'em last time...
...Pronunciation: Shmigwy-Ridzh. Meaning: nimble-mushroom. The Marshal's family name was Rydz (Mushroom), indicating peasant origin. But because of the quickness of both his wits and his body, his companions in the Pilsudski Legions gave him the sobriquet Smigly (Nimble). He sometimes wears it before, sometimes behind Rydz, prefers it behind so that the name has less meaning...
...wrought by the amazing publicity campaign organized for her by Paramount. Before Morocco, her next picture, was released Hollywood gazed astonished at a series of billboards in which Dietrich and her limbs were formally presented to the U. S. Writers, columnists created for von Sternberg's star the sobriquet he had envisaged, "Legs" Dietrich...
Chinese Joan. With Chinese everywhere feverishly excited by their Premier's new boldness, there arrived in Manhattan last week to collect funds attractive Miss Loh Tsei, who is known by the cash-compelling sobriquet "The Joan of Arc of China." In December of last year, Chinese students outside Peiping were trying to unite with Chinese students inside Peiping for a demonstration against Japan. In those days the policy of Premier Chiang was not yet strong and his police had locked the City's gates to keep the two groups of Chinese students apart. In this emergency, Miss...
...Beware! are simple enough: "Dynamite" Jones (Bruce Macfarlane) is the deadliest love pirate in the U. S. Navy. He has cardboard boxes full of garters, duly tagged, to prove it. In Panama, however, lives a young lady named Billie Jackson (Audrey Christie) whose hard heart has gained her the sobriquet of "Stonewall." Dynamite's friend Barney organizes a big sweepstake, wagering his prized key-winding watch that Dynamite can overcome Stonewall's maidenly reticence within a week. Dynamite wins, in a sense. But since the victory involves marriage, all bets are off. Amusing sequence: Dynamite, returning...