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Paris certainly does not compare with London in warlike appearance. Practically no sandbags. The "blackout" is a blaze. No reassuring balloons pattern the sky, no robot aerial guard, fewer cars, of course. Gasoline is strictly rationed. The Ritz barman told me that they now feed alcohol to the cars...
Fibber's garrulous tarradiddles, the broguish comeuppances Molly metes out to him, the dated didos of his numerous stooges, are as familiar as the pattern of the living-room rug. Fibber is an incorrigible blowhard, but a game guy to boot. With nonpareil confidence, he tries his luck at anything, from barbering to running an army...
...Music, he writes with a composer's power of conception, a doctoral insipidity of style. In his long (674-page) chronicle he deals boldly, methodically with the social rigidities, dignities and horrors of life in the town of Kings Row at the turn of the century. The pattern is complete; the vision is undistinguished...
...days ago England proudly announced that it had laid mines across its enemy's life-line to Swedish iron ore. Norway protested, and Germany struck. This time there were no press campaigns, flying diplomatic visits, or ultimatums. In the old familiar pattern of war, the front has been widened into Scandinavia, and again America wonders what this move means...
Today, Tomorrow, Any Time. The pattern of Italy's future was still as obscure last week as Benito Mussolini's skill could make it. But from the doubt emerged certain strong probabilities...