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Snorted Pauley: "I've never heard such poppycock in my life." As Stassen poured it on, Pauley fidgeted, mopped his face with his handkerchief. The muscles of his jaw twitched angrily. Twice he leaped to his feet, pointed a long, bony finger at Stassen and demanded a "right to" defend himself against the "false charges of that man right there...
Kick Over Every Pot. Lombardo ran a handkerchief-covered finger inside his sweaty collar. With a mocking smile, Party Leader Pietro Nenni handed him a glass of water. "You say that the Marshall Plan ruins our chances of trading with Russia," Lombardo continued. "Do you know what percentage of our imports came from Russia? 1%." A deafening roar swept up from the audience. In a last effort, Lombardo shouted: "To sabotage the Marshall Plan is to kick over every pot in every Italian kitchen...
...country, he was heard to murmur, "This will be the death of me." On Christmas Eve, 1947, he was stricken with a lung infection complicated by hardening of the arteries. Four days later, in Alexandria, death, as it must to all kings, came to Victor Emmanuel. Clutching at a handkerchief, dry-eyed Elena sat up all night. In the morning a taxicab arrived with a plain wooden coffin tied on top for il piccolo...
Into this deadlocked consultation stepped the Federal Reserve Board's Chairman Marriner S. Eccles, a man with decided opinions of his own. To Eccles, the Administration's program was no more than dabbing at the patient's beak with a soggy handkerchief. It might curb the effects of inflation; it would not cure the cold...
Footpads, pickpockets and housebreakers, with all the riffraff who lived by their wits, filled the underworld of London's alleys and gin shops with an argot of which traces still survive. "Frisking" meant searching, then as now. A watch was a "tick," a handkerchief was a "wipe," and "wipe priggers" (pickpockets) flourished among theater standees. A glass of gin was a "flash of lightning',, and too many flashes often lit the way to "Tuck 'em Fair" (the place of execution...