Word: uppers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Then, Professor Angoff, you have something to learn. By the time you get around to getting your second upper plate of teeth, the way I am now, you will learn that people who don't like to drink can't write . . . Never trust a man who doesn't feel better when he's tanked up . . . But,' he spat in the spittoon, and his face became serious ... 'I have no use for anybody who neglects his work for drink ing or for women. Work comes first. All the time. Drinking, like lovemaking...
...British marched out of India in 1948 with colors flying, pipes skirling, and every upper lip as stiff as Kitchener's the day the dervishes whirled and charged him at Omdurman. But all the pomp and bluster of yesterday were missing last week when the last British soldiers pulled out of another great outpost of Empire. Five days before the deadline set by the Anglo-Egyptian agreement, Brigadier John H. S. Lacey handed over the keys of his Suez Canal headquarters to Lieut. Colonel Abdullah Azouni of the Egyptian army and quietly led the last 91 of Britain...
Three years ago, when Rojas stepped into power to stop a bloody civil war between rural Liberals and Conservatives, he had the enthusiastic backing of big majorities in both parties. He dribbled away his prestige among Colombia's literate upper crust, which includes the top politicians of both parties, by such despotic measures as closing newspapers wholesale and bloodily repressing student demonstrations. But Rojas feels certain that labor and peasants no longer look to the old Liberal and Conservative politicos for leadership. He hopes to sweep the dis-'illusioned into the Third Force...
...liltish tune. Funniest spoof proves to be one more take-off on a big Ziegfeld-era staircase number, with a showgirl, rigged out like an entire orange grove, having a ghastly time on the stairs. There is fun in Steady, Edna, which rags a British jungle film, while an upper-class British domestic skit has a husband shouting, "To hell with cricket," and his wife replying coldly, "Any one who would say that would strike the Queen...
...Arleigh Burke was excellent; there has been a little contention here concerning the cover. We are wondering if the line around the Admiral's picture has 31 knots in it or not; there are 27 knots visible, but others may be obscured by the yellow band in the upper right-hand corner...