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...unhappily, both in tonnage and use, these metals, though strategic, are all pipsqueaks compared to the basic scarce ones -steel and copper and zinc. There are still many doubters who swear that the "scarcity" of base metals is an illusion caused by wasteful use and chaotic allocation methods (TIME, Aug. 3). But so long as the U.S. war machine must have more of them than WPB can find, it cannot run at capacity...
...British have phrases and colloquialisms of their own that may sound funny to you. You can make just as many boners in their eyes. It isn't a good idea, for instance, to say 'bloody' in mixed company-it is one of their worst swear words. To say: 'I look like a bum' is offensive in their ears, for to the British this means that you look like your own backside...
...them were luncheons." Occasionally when she was in Washington she ran over to Rockefeller's office, Anna Rosenberg, who (according to Vogue) can be "soft and feminine and use her great, soft, dark eyes," and can still be "man-to-man" and "swear like a trooper," had another point to make. When she had accepted the Social Security appointment it was on condition that she be allowed to continue her work as a public-relations consultant...
Only to the uninitiated, the "icebergs," who let the balls roll undirected about the board, is pinball a game of luck. True pinsters all swear that skill alone controls the boards. Most of the pin language, however, suggests that fate does take a hand in the proceedings. For example, when a pinster triumphs and wins free games, "fees," spectators race about in a mystic trance shouting "Pinball," a call as rousing to Bow Street as Rheinhardt is to the Yard. But bewailing bad luck takes up much more space in the pinball dictionary. A streak of poor playing is described...
Malta's present ruler is pious, beefy, frumpy Lieut. General Sir William George Shedden Dobbie, 63, whose troops call him "Old Dob Dob" and who does not drink, smoke or swear. He regards this war as another crusade against infidels, and he hates the Nazi nihilists for making him fight on Sundays. Any other day of the week he is glad to oblige. In 1918 he observed that, if anyone ever asked him what he did in World War I, he could say that he stopped it, for it was he, as a member of Field Marshal Sir Douglas...