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...London's streets the people quipped: this is "Salute-the-Government-Week." London's press did not like the salute in the House. Said the Observer: "The Prime Minister has seldom acted more unwisely. . . ." New Statesmen & Nation: "Most arrant nonsense. . . ." Time & Tide: "Unfortunate. . . "Daily Mirror: "Parliament might as well go out of business altogether. . . ." Daily Worker: "Now there is a vote of confidence in the House but lack of confidence in the country...
...tuned his violin and shoved off on his rolling, novelty entrance to Mrs. Corneily's masquerade in Soho Square, London. He raised his bow and rolled forward. He found that he could not steer. Neither could he stop. He screamed. Two seconds later, Mrs. Corneily's ?500 mirror was in splinters, the fiddle was matchwood, and Merlin was bleeding like a pig. Thus, in 1760, the sport of roller skating was born...
...Senate Office Building. They were led by an extraordinary figure. Tall, pink and portly, with a mane of grey-white hair curling over his collar, he was dressed in a long-coated black suit, a boiled white shirt fastened with gold studs, a black bow tie, and mirror-shiny black boots. As he pushed his way through a swarm of newshawks and photographers Tom Connally of Texas, whose appearance reminds some of an oldtime Shakespearean actor, cried out sonorously: "Make way for liberty...
...only the dead know that Hollis. The living know the hall of the depression and the war. It is the beginning of the new cycle, the cycle that begins in national emergency and continues to mirror a greater Harvard...
...type. He sent them a huge diagram illustrating the "correct" way to wrap and tie parcels. He liked his books to appear in different formats-50 copies in a red binding, 20 in green, 20 in blue, two in vellum, one with primrose edges, one with a piece of mirror set in the cover. He also conducted some inside operations: "In thousands of copies of his books he had inserted . . . a 'Caution' in which he had disavowed authorship of a story . . . published in a magazine over his signature. He had not written it, the 'Caution' explained...