Word: waterlooed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...levels without abating a mad metal market (TIME, March 22), was precise Sir John Campbell, economic and financial adviser to the British Colonial Office. Whatever Sir John's first considerations were as he walked into the highceilinged committee room in Brettenham House next to Waterloo Bridge, the problem at hand was essentially one of trying to keep skyrocketing rubber prices from knobbling the British armament race without jeopardizing anticipated profits in rubber, which will help Great Britain's balance of international payments. Result I was that the committee cautiously sanctioned an increase in production for the third quarter...
...unhappy contrast is "The Iron Duke", of which the only thing that can be said is that Arliss is Arliss, and a poorer one than usual. His usually quizzical expression is frozen into a leering grimace and glassy stare by the awful grandeur of Waterloo. Platitudes fall more thickly than the cannon-balls, and the attempts at humour miss their mark as widely as do the French gunners. Not even the Tsar of Russia, the King of Prussia and the King of France can save this bit of historical mummery from utter deadliness. But even this shouldn't keep anyone...
Tsushima is a word that means more in the Eastern than in the Western Hemisphere. To Japanese it stands for the same thing that Trafalgar means to the English, to Russians, what Waterloo means to the French. Greatest naval battle since Trafalgar, and one of the four greatest of all time,* Tsushima (1905) was the knockout blow by which Admiral Togo won the Russo-Japanese War, set all Japan in a roar of Banzai! History has written down Togo as hero of the fight, but last week a footnote to history gave the other side of the story...
...first met Mr. Simpson, then married to a previous wife, at the home of a Mrs. Jacques Raffray of Manhattan. Last week Mrs. Raffray arrived in England and was met by Mr. Simpson. They traveled up to London in the same railway compartment, separated on the platform of Waterloo Station, ran out by separate doors, jumped into the same taxi, curled up together on the floor to escape the notice of reporters. When exhorted to sit up and show themselves they sat up screaming with laughter. To Manhattan reporters Mrs. Raffray had denied recently that it was her ambition...
Lloyd's of London (Twentieth Century-Fox). In The House of Rothschild (1934), Producer Darryl Zanuck imparted to a waiting world the news that the Battle of Waterloo was won by George Arliss and a flock of pigeons. In this picture, the same Wahoo, Neb. authority on the Napoleonic Wars reveals the inside story of Trafalgar. England's victory in this case, it appears, sprang from a childish pact between Admiral Horatio Nelson and Jonathan Blake, the moving spirit of Lloyd's, London's famed insurance company...