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Casanova was having his troubles. The Communists have recently lost ground in French labor unions. Not a single important French union is now under firm Communist control. The one most nearly under the Red thumb is the longshoremen's union...
...train, by bus, by bicycle and by thumb, more than 2,000 trollops came to Celle. The girls increased the shortage of space until the staid people of Celle, swept along on the tide of vice and opportunism, began renting rooms for the night only. The price depended on the G.I.s' alcoholic state-it was usually 20 marks ($5), but in at least one case it was as high as 250. Some mothers even sent their children into the streets to lure the G.I.s home: "Nice warm Stube with big bed, Joe." Among themselves, the burghers began to call...
...Four-Chambered Heart is just about as silly as this sounds. It piles a mountainous icing of surrealist imagery and rubbery aphorisms on a little cake of plot no bigger than a thumb. The plot: Range's psychopathic wife fakes illness to keep her weak-willed husband away from Djuna's barge; eventually she brings both of them under her spell and has them waiting on her hand & foot. Despairing Djuna decides to sink herself, lover, barge and all. At the last minute she changes her mind and dives into a dot-studded, six-page stream of consciousness...
...fact-minded Walter Gifford never placed any reliance on fool's luck. He probed into Western Electric's rule-of-thumb business methods, impressed his bosses by outlining new accounting and manufacturing ideas on easily understood charts. When American Telephone & Telegraph Co., owner of Western Electric, wanted to expand in 1908, President Theodore N. Vail put Gifford in charge of evaluating the companies which were later incorporated into the Bell System. For his crack job, Gifford was made chief statistician of A.T. & T. in 1911 at $7,000 a year. After that he rose through the company with...
clothes I'm going back home and thumb...