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...class of wage earner who might (possibly) or should (perhaps) have a bathroom in his home, but in Poland and Denmark many, many petits bourgeois have none. As for the suggestion that a Polish or Danish factory hand should own an automobile-that was called "fantastic." But the questioners, stubborn, questioned...
...Lacoste's wedding to the French golf champion, Mile Simone Thion de la Chaume. When he returned to the centre court at Wimbledon, Cochet argued like a tired attorney. He won the first two games, but after that the debonair and biting edge of his game disappeared. Allison, stubborn, strong, insistent, won the first set 6-4 and then the second, by the same score. In the last, with the score 5-3 and 40-30 against him, Cochet patted a slow return, sighed as it fell into the net, walked forward to shake hands...
...gracious as Julia. Ann Harding, as her little sister Linda, is less mannered and more attractive than was Hope Williams on the stage. Robert Ames grins and frowns as Johnny Case. The whimsicality of Edward Everett Horton, impersonating Linda's friend Nick Potter, sometimes threatens to grow stubborn, but he finds the proper gestures for Playwright Barry's famed success-story monolog, "How I Invented the Bottle...
...British Blue Book further shows that in March of this year the Holy See informed His Majesty's Government that they "could not consent to a concordat on Malta so long as Lord Strickland [a Roman Catholic] remained in power." Vexed to the bottom of his stubborn Glasgow soul, Foreign Minister Arthur Henderson made his final reply to Pope Pius XI by withdrawing the British Minister to the Holy See, Henry Getty Chilton...
...civilized minority holds sway." Mr. Martin is skeptical, not to say suspicious, of the present trend of social organization. "It is precisely because it seems to be necessary to give up so many social liberties in modern industrial society that mankind must guard its personal rights with stubborn vigilance. . . . Resort to legislation should be the very last remedy proposed for the removal of abuse. ... If you would keep your power over yourself, keep it off your neighbor...