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...bill change, however, a letter of the alphabet is added after the year. Thus the second issue of Series 1935 was Series 1935A. Since no major change in currency design was adopted until the 1955 legislation, the 1935 pattern carried all the way through Series 1936F which bore the signatures of Ivy Baker Priest and Robert B. Anderson...
...great ones in the long waxwork gallery of English comics, appears as an ambitious officer with a rich, newly acquired military vocabulary. In his own phrase he is "up to his arse in bumph" (i.e., a busy desk officer). An unconscious clown as an Etonian, an obtuse and thundering bore as a successful businessman, a disastrous figure of Freudian fun as a lover, Widmerpool, as Powell says in a hundred ways, is the sort of man this age was designed for. In Widmerpool is seen the force of Powell's art-a deadly bore in life becomes a fascinating...
...gear and were doing calisthenics. Others wore greenish fatigues. Two teams were playing volley ball." Between neat rows of dun-colored tents, Morfett caught glimpses of field kitchens and chow lines, and beyond sat "military vehicles-lorries, trucks with mobile radar units, armored cars. Some of the trucks still bore Russian-language lettering." Ringing the camp were Cuban soldiers manning freshly dug anti-aircraft emplacements...
Mecca for fashion models is Paris' House of Dior, but for redheaded Welsh Mannequin Maggie Griffiths, 23, Dior was becoming a bore. "Fittings from 10 in the morning until 10 at night; the same clothes in the same shows day after...
...Germany's working mothers hold their jobs out of economic necessity. Most of the rest are furiously engaged in the race to keep up with the Müllers. with second cars, appliances and travel. One thing leads to another: appliances make housework more of a bore; travel and entertainment stir interests far from the Küche. According to a recent study, four out of five formerly docile hausfraus consider their lot unhappy, and most of them because they are "fed up with housework." With the divorce rate up and the birth rate down, many a West German...