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...pure as the driven snow?" the file closer continues. He is one of those boys that call a spade an entrenching tool...
...Baton Rouge, I had the opportunity to meet some of the author's relatives and found that they also, oddly enough, were divided in their opinions. Some of them would not discuss the book at all. One of them-a doctor- said: "Well-Evans certainly did call a spade a spade. I lived right at the edge of the swamp for a good many years and those conditions really did exist-and I suppose they still...
Hardest working, quickest acting Foreign Minister in Europe is Signor Dino Grandi, spade-bearded, snapping-eyed. Last week he: 1) Appointed Edda Mussolini's husband to be Consul General at Shanghai, China; 2) Sought to soothe French statesmen ruffled by Il Duce's warlike outbursts (TIME, June 2) with a proposal that both France and Italy suspend naval building during 1930 and try to reach an accord; 3) Rushed off to Warsaw for a week's confab with Polish statesmen "on matters of trade...
...minimum fare) for a long ride. Then he rents an oversized apartment and proceeds to enjoy his life. The record of his adventures makes lively if not edifying reading, contains many a pungently satirical comment on U. S. urban and suburban life. Sometimes Authors Perelman and Reynolds call a spade by its trade name. Says a Manhattan newspaperman, complaining as is the custom of newspapermen: "Some business. Work for the Telegram, there's a paper. When you're fifty-five and you've been there twenty years, they give you a week...
...banker must have a spade beard; it gives the public confidence. -French Axiom...