Word: tireder
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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In the paneled "Room for Chamber Music" in Zurich's Congress House, delegates to the International Socialist Congress crammed a 40-hour week of discordant debating into four days, achieved nothing. A Dutch delegate remarked: "It's like a conference of tired businessmen." Said Leon Dennen, an unofficial...
Grumbach nearly failed to reach Zurich because of the railroad strike against France's Socialist Government (see FOREIGN NEWS). The incident was typical of Socialism's state. Said one of the tired businessmen: "I am an optimist. Socialism will progress despite us Socialists."
Parisian circus menageries, "after wartime dispersal throughout occupied Europe, are back in slightly thinner, but no less entertaining, form." And for the tired businessman from Kankakee, the famed beauties at the Folies Bergère "will be acting with even more abandon now that warm weather is here. Last winter...
"The people of Ecuador," said Senator-elect Galo Plaza Lasso, 41, "are tired of traditional parties. That's why they voted for us."
Died. James Evershed Agate, 69, bumptiously witty, self-centered (his nine-volume autobiography is entitled Ego) cotton-mill owner who tired of working with calico ("hating every yard of it"), became one of Britain's top literary, cinema and drama critics (the London Daily Express and Sunday Times); of...