Word: taunts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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This feat had several importances. It was an insufferable taunt at the Italians. It drew not a single ship from Italy's main naval base at La Spezia, not 60 miles away. It was an unequivocal warning to the Germans not to try to launch a seaborne expedition to North Africa either from Genoa or from French ports...
Good Offices. In the Italian Chamber of Fasces and Corporations announcement was made that a fine new set of forts protected Italy's Alpine border, but scarcely was the Foreign Minister back in Berlin before Nazi officials began to taunt newsmen with hints of impending "big doings." A Rumanian Army mission mysteriously turned up in Berlin, and reports came out that Adolf Hitler had offered to lend his "good offices" in persuading Russia and Hungary to be nice-not to invade King Carol Il's domain. For these good offices, the Führer "hoped" that Rumania would...
Answering Miss Sheridan's taunt that while she earns $100,000 a year by her oomph, the average Harvard graduate makes less than $5,000 Bowie said. "We wonder by what criterion Miss Sheridan claims success for herself. If she earns $100,000 a year, it is further proof of public gullibility rather than of Miss Sheridan's success as an actress...