Word: uppityness
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Against Dictator Mussolini the chief British move last week was actually financial. Her monster "Big Five" banks claimed to be acting independently of the Bank of England when they tightened credits to Italy sharply, made the munitions buying Dictator wince at the vast, invisible potency of London financiers. If any...
Meanwhile, Joe Lyons & wife loomed last week as two of the most notable characters to emerge from what uppity Great Britons call ''Down Under." Seven short years ago the Hon. Mr. Lyons was merely Premier of Tasmania, an island which is down under Australia and referred to by Australians as...
"Chet never has been uppity about his good fortune."
The Jugoslavian incident rubbed Foreign Minister Mussolini the wrong way because for three months Italy's puppet King Zog of Albania has been acting uppity. Albania was violently objecting to Italian officers commanding her troops. She was refusing to allow Italian immigrants to settle in the rich Mushakia Valley...
Augustus joined the cavalry, was badly wounded in his first skirmish, fell in love with his hospital nurse and married her. Polycarp Vaiden and A. Gray Lacefield came through the war unhurt. But before they got home again the Yankees had been there and had not left much to come...