Word: donning
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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"I know that orders have been issued-preparatory to Hitler making a peace offer -to the Communists of the country to disturb meetings," said Minister Bevin. "I know very well that you have been instructed to try to create the impression that the working class of this country is disunited...
"Some Reds are just unfortunate tools. The Government has got to face the issue as a matter of war strategy. . . . Working men and women in Scottish industry, don't you allow any minority to create a condition to force the State to take action it doesn't want...
Confidence and prosperity are the chicken-&-egg of economics. Does confidence turn the wheels, or do turning wheels churn up confidence? A.D. 1940 settled the second half of this dilemma: they don't necessarily. There never was a year in which Business had less confidence, or in which industry...
Reason for this was plain. Despite the production boom, nothing Business really wanted had been achieved. Taxes, far from easing, were made tougher by an excess-profits tax and likely to grow more so. Government spending was multiplied; the 76th Congress appropriated more than $17 billions. Interest rates on capital...
There is the psaga of Psmith ("the p ... is silent as in phthisis, psychic, and ptarmigan"), the fastidious young man who calls everybody "Comrade," and almost alone among Wodehouse fauna has enough wits to live by. There is the epic of Jeeves, the infallible, verse-quoting valet ("We are in...