Word: foreign
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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Petticoat Influence has very little weight but is deft and amusing. With tongue well in cheek, it sets out to have a few quiet laughs at the British Foreign office, the vanity and complacence of the male, the intuitive cunning of the female...
...flying school, Lincoln, Neb., in 1922; flew alone from New York to Paris, 1927." Col. Lindbergh's father-in-law Dwight Whitney Morrow does not appear. Nicholas Murray Butler's paragraph occupies more space in the volume than that of any other man or woman, British or foreign...
Rayon. More than 80% of the world's rayon production is controlled by a small, potent group. Members are confined to one specialty, underselling in foreign markets is prohibited. Yet last week the rayon group met in London, failed dismally to stabilize prices...
DREAMY RIVERS-Henry Baerlein- Simon & Schuster ($2.50).† Like Rev. Laurence Sterne, Traveler Henry Baerlein wore rosy spectacles when he went on a journey. But he supplies you with the same kind, so he makes a good companion. Traveler Baerlein speaks foreign languages like a native, and everywhere he went people would drop whatever they were doing to engage him in extended and animated chats. Such was the charm of his tongue or his appearance that a chambermaid in a hotel, a respectable woman with a son, left her job to go walking with him. Other occasional companions were...
After the boundaries had quieted down a peasant found the frontier ran through his house, making his lavatory foreign ground. It would have taken him two weeks, every time, to get his passport visaed...