Word: thoughts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...back for ten points less. Those who profited by this turn of events were chiefly professional traders. SEC has since reported that at the peak, in the last half of July, while the public was buying heavily, Exchange members did 78% of all short selling. Last week the public thought that the professionals were lucky in finding Mr. Hitler working for them at Danzig...
...heckling Nazi radio system, the thought of Britishers being debagged by impolite little Japanese sentries in China has been a constant delight. So an an-schlussed Vienna station this month concocted a morsel of doggerel, in English, commemorating the situation in a vaudeville program relayed by all the other stations in Ostmark. The doggerel...
...sleep, to sleep. . . ." Sure enough, off she went. Mr. Klein turned to another girl-"sleep, sleep, s-l-e-e-p"-and off she went too. Then, magically, he woke them both up. Mr. Klein turned to his auditioners, with a who's-next look. But a horrible thought had communicated itself among them. This s-l-e-e-p stuff. . . . Suppose the radio audience...
Lady Falkland, after her husband's death, imagined that Byron (he had never seen her) was in love with her. She thought the women mentioned in his poems were herself. Her sons, Lucius and Plantagenet, shared her delusion. She wrote: ''Surely I cannot be mistaken! Byron, my adored Byron, come to me ... tell me, my Byron, if those mournful tender effusions . . . to Thyrza . . . were not intended for myself...
...standard handbook on diplomatic theory, procedure and preparation of novices for the foreign service, Diplomacy is clearly, suavely, concisely written, with scarcely a dash of famed Nicolson irony to spice its correct Protocole. Its brief, packed 264 pages review diplomatic practice from the moment when cavemen first thought it would be a good idea to have an immune messenger to call time-out in their club fights, down to the present when "total warriors" tend to think diplomatic immunity is oldfashioned...