Word: surly
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...dedicatory "globalunch," where the dishes included räker (peeled shrimp) from Norway, sur sill (sour herring) from Sweden, and topinambours en daube (stew of Jerusalem artichokes) from France, Chairman Ken Parker preached his gospel that tariffs should be abolished by the U.S. and other nations, and free world trade restored. Said he: "Two-way trade with foreign nations ... is the only really practical way to achieve peace on this earth. Two individuals or two communities or two nations who mutually profit from trading with each other do not tend to quarrel...
...private shorthand of hieroglyphic complexity, e.g., "N.a. j. et. d. sa. sal. de bil une Ba; il. dde au Gm. sil sa. ce. q. c'e. C'une ma. de G. il d. dab. q. cest un bal. p. ses enf. Est ce p. ser. a desc. sur un remp...
...pitchforks and in threshing machines-when he is not tangling with wasps, pigs and flagpoles. The wine finally wears off, the fair departs and village and postman go back to a more tranquil tempo. "News," says one of the inhabitants of sleepy Sainte-Sévère-sur-Indre philosophically, "is so bad nowadays we certainly can wait a few extra minutes for the letters...
...French parliamentarians who voted state powers to Marshal Pétain at Vichy in 1940. But Pinay managed to avoid collaborationist charges by his excellent record as wartime mayor of Saint-Chamond in the Loire. He operates a tannery in the Rhone town of Saint-Symphorien-sur-Coise. It was the conservative look of Premier Pinay which attracted the Gaullist right wing...
...CRISE SUR LE JAZZ AUX ETATS-UNIS, said the headline in Paris' Combat. French zazous (pure-jazz bugs) who think of the U.S. as a land paved with Louis Armstrongs and Sidney Bechets got a depressing firsthand report on the "crisis," far from new, of U.S. jazz. Wrote French Bandleader Jacques Hélian...