Word: doubledealing
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What most roused the dull anger of São Paulo's clerks and factory workers was the racking pressure of ten years of rising prices. Despite all the government's promises, food costs were 27% more than a year ago; within the week, the price of rice...
On display this week at Richmond's Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, the eggs are the work of an intense, spade-bearded jeweler named Peter Carl Fabergé (1846-1920). Starting out in his father's small shop in St. Petersburg as a young apprentice, Fabergé became...
An old hand at superintending-in Kalamazoo, Mich., New Rochelle, N.Y., and Kansas City, Mo.-Hunt started setting things to rights. A friendly, glad-handing Rotarian ("It's not what you eat that makes ulcers, but what eats you"), he could be ruthless if necessary. He put school jobs...
In 1930 she got a fingernail grip on Broadway in the Theatre Guild's Garrick Gaieties, and was seen briefly in a 1931 flop called Company's Coming. But Broadway, like everything else, was sliding into the Depression. Drawing on all her confidence and energy, Ros got a...
Lercaro went to work with social action instead of pious platitudes. When the Pope gave bishops authority to pool and redistribute the income of their clergy, he was one of the few who tried it and made it work. "To everyone, something," he said. "Those who have more should not...