Word: effectiveness
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...minutes. At last the door opened; the crowd bellowed. Out came a grinning porter to polish the brass-work. Another minute, and the President made a carefully timed appearance, got off a little speech timed for the afternoon papers: a quotation of Lincoln's definition of liberty (in effect: liberty for the sheep is not liberty for the shepherd, nor for the wolf...
Ominous to Greek ears was another Italian sound-effect they heard that evening - from Mussolini's news agency, Stefani: news that there had been a "border incident" that day near the Corizza Pass on the Greek-Albanian border, and a bomb incident at Porto Edda (named for Il Duce's daughter). The Italians, of course, blamed Greek "armed bands" and agents. Denial of the affairs by the Greeks went unheard, their offers of discussion were turned down. Within a few hours Mussolini and Hitler had one more conference, at Florence (see p. 28), and Italy...
...them in fluorescent-lighted showcases lay the toniest U. S. jeweler's dazzling stock: diamond solitaires up to 20½ carats (price: $100,000), pearls (up to $243,000 a string), emeralds, sapphires. The radiance of thousands of stones seemed to spread out and warm the visitors, an effect increased by spotlights hidden in the high soundproofed ceiling. Said Mrs. John F. Bigelow, a Tiffany customer for 40 years: "An inspiring structure with a very social atmosphere. In the old Tiffany's we never looked at each other. Here it is different...
...years old. He was fat (from good living), rubicund (from good drinking). He walked with a stoop, talked with a lisp. He was tired from a lifetime of fighting singlehanded against "the inadequacy, the apathy, the bloodlessness that ruled England"; from prophesying without effect the things that at last had happened. Britons who had denied him leadership in prosperity, offered him leadership in disaster. He offered them "toil and blood and tears." In its extremity the nation seemed to recognize for the first time that the whole life of this man, whom it had hated and defamed, was a preparation...
...commercial" today. If he dies, so much the better, for he will be immortal, like Bix, and legends will tell of how be drank himself to death and of how he just played because he loved jazz and the hell with the money anyway. Finally, any statements to the effect that Benny might not have been the greatest, most moving, relaxed, sincere, inviolated clarinetist in the world, will automatically become anathema...