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Bevin Explains. Attentively the conference listened to influential, bull-necked Ernest Bevin, Minister of Labor: "The steps which have been taken in Greece are not the decisions of Mr. Churchill. They are the decisions of the Cabinet.. .. Russia undertook the main problem in Rumania. We undertook the main problem...
Colonel Robert Rutherford McCormick, the Chicago Tribune's stiff-necked America-firstish publisher, who bravely but barely contained himself during the election campaign, unburdened himself to a Montreal newsman: "Dewey was a very weak nominee ... he ran behind practically every other Republican candidate who was elected. ... If Dewey had...
"A Rude and Nasty Custom." In Graves's account, young, gay Marie Powell dutifully married John Miltonbecause her father was in debt to him. "I sorely fear," warned lusty Mother Powell "that you will go through Purgatory . . . with that stiff-necked, canting, Judasly rogue."
In Buenos Aires, the request amazed the Argentine people. Some thought their stiff-necked Government was softening up. Some applauded its cleverness. If denied a hearing, it could claim to be persecuted.
Amber set the Court vogue for mixed nude bathing in the Thames and for low-necked dresses. "Ods-fish, madame," cracked the King, "the greatest display that ever I've seen . . . since I was weaned!" All the best people came to see the Duchess taking her bath in asses...