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...little guy just trying to learn the ropes, and always being outsmarted. With all the self-depreciation, Billy lets it be known that he is a pretty clever fellow. From Socrates to Will Rogers it has been a good routine when done right, and Billy makes a fairly successful stab...
Henri Queuille was hoping for a miracle. What he would actually get, if some of his colleagues had their way, would be a stab in the back. A plan was afoot to bring the Communists back into the government. Chief instigator was that old darling of the U.S. press, Edouard Herriot, President of the Assembly. Following Herriot's lead were about 30 Socialist deputies, a score of M.R.P. deputies and a few Radicals. One of this group explained their ideas...
...fourth government in seven weeks. A small but revealing fact in the situation was that the new Premier, Dr. Henri Queuille, who had been active in French politics since 1914 and a cabinet minister 22 times, was unknown in the U.S. Very few Americans could make more than a stab at pronouncing his name...
...Stab in the Back? Razvi's threat is no idle one. If the Indian army invaded Hyderabad, Razvi's Razakars would kill Hyderabad Hindus. Throughout India Hindus would retaliate against Moslems. Knowing this, Indian leaders might settle for something short of accession, but insist that Razvi must go and the Razakars must be disbanded. India, still dangerously close to war with Pakistan, could never be comfortable with Razvi's fifth column in its midst. Last week Hyderabad's Prime Minister Mir Laik Ali said: "India thinks that if Pakistan attacks her, Hyderabad will stab...
Winston Churchill, a sturdy monogamist himself, pointed out the loopholes to prospective wife-killers. If you are anxious to avoid hanging, he said, "you can strangle her, hold her head in a gas oven . . . stab her, cut her throat or bash her brains out. If you can arrange a procedure, you can set her on fire, push her off a station platform in front of an oncoming train, push her through the porthole of a ship, or, more easily, you can drown her in the bathtub...