Word: soling
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...decided he did not, got a job at famed Marguery's Restaurant, and soon wished himself back in the patisserie. At Marguery's his principal job was shelling mussels to be used as trimming for the restaurant's specialty, filet de sole Marguery. When he got a chance to go to London and the Savoy, he jumped at it. His food and quarters there were so much better that he became discontented, thought again of Henry's bomb when he caught glimpses of the sleek diners in the grillroom...
Last week the "panorama show," the 19th Century's forerunner of cinema, long forgotten, was news again. All but one of the several hundred paintings that Manhattanites goggled at in 1859 had vanished. Sole known survivor was the view of New York Harbor. Last week it came to view again on the walls of the Museum of the City of New York, the gift of Mrs. Robert Malcolm Littlejohn, Manhattan socialite...
...with Mr. Gandhi until his followers formally abandon mass civil disobedience. Nonetheless the committee could not resist the Mahatma. By an overwhelming majority, they appointed Mr. Gandhi to treat with Lord Willingdon, resolved that mass civil disobedience shall continue until an "honorable settlement" is reached. They made the Mahatma sole judge of what sort of settlement would be "honorable." Jubilant, Mr. Gandhi babbled, "If the Viceroy refuses this advance he will be insulting himself!" When the Mahatma telegraphed a request for audience with Viscount Willingdon it was promptly refused, whereat he telegraphed a second request, exclaiming "I have packed...
...Governor."* Promptly he became "Le Gouverneur" to polite but stubborn Frenchmen who made up their minds that M. Cox was not going to chair man the Conference Monetary Committee, first and most important to be formed as 66 nations got down to business last week. France, as the sole Great Power still on the gold standard, felt that her Finance Minister, knife-featured little Georges Bonnet, was the logical, the only choice...
...Should the United States, Great Britain and France fail to point a way out of the economic morass at this Conference," snapped Copper King Francqui, "the small nations of Europe will cluster about the one sole statesman capable of leadership- MUSSOLINI. // Duce is fostering sensible ideas for united action while the Great Powers are doing nothing. The small nations, crying for leadership, will follow Mussolini...