Word: soled
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...from the U.S. He was not speaking from under the sounding board of the House of Commons (the speech was to the Oxford Conservative Association), but his words carried. Said he: "The first and fundamental principle is that the administration of the British colonies must continue to be the sole responsibility of Great Britain." Then he flatly rejected the suggestion that "some international body" should administer British colonies after...
...come clean on the Government's colonial policy. Said the Prime Minister, with his accomplished air of plowing a statesmanlike furrow through the rich dirt of politics: ". . . His Majesty's Government are convinced that the administration of the British colonies must continue to be the sole responsibility of Great Britain. The policy of His Majesty's Government is to plan for the fullest possible political, economic and social development within the British Empire-and in close cooperation with the neighboring and friendly nations." Laborite Dugdale then asked Winston Churchill if he was aware that the "somewhat truculent...
...straightened out, and love triumphs. It's hard to say exactly how old this German picture is, but it's an interesting antique as well as a satisfying comedy of manners. Despite an unexhilarating pace, it is skillfully acted, and enjoyable if you don't go with the sole intention of seeing nakkid women. The only nakedness to be observed is the collection of Varga girls plastered on the bill-boards outside the theatre...
President of Book-of-the-Month and (for all practical purposes) sole owner is dark, nervous, crinkly-eyed Harry Scherman, 56, onetime advertising man. The little venture in selling books by mail, which he helped launch in 1926, has grown in membership to 575,000. Scherman has moved into an apartment in Manhattan's swank Sutton Place district, also has a country house in horsy Bernardsville, N.J. Booksellers and publishers often call him "the most powerful man in publishing...
...plenty of money were the sole measure of economic health, U.S. bankers would be the happiest businessmen in the U.S. They are not. Too much money in the banks, combined with too few consumer goods on the market, spells out inflation. And if the U.S. public should try to cash in its big deposits for goods with the same energy with which it attempted in 1933 to switch into cash, all hell would break loose. Said one banker this week: "The tinder is there, the fire may follow...