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...Egypt with a wide following among the people, to whom it promised independence from Britain and a better life. But over the years it grew deeply corrupt. Nahas himself was once a respected leader. The son of fellaheen, he came from Egypt's soil. He was a devoted servant of the people, and he lived simply even after he became Premier. Then in 1936 he took as his wife the lovely, ambitious daughter of a landowner. Her name was Zeinab, but Nahas called her "Zeezee." She called him "Safsaf...
...slight cold and would remain indoors. But reporters persisted, and finally Rita and Aly received the press. The divorce plans, said Rita a bit haughtily, were definitely off-"for the present." Bubbling Aly called for champagne "for everyone on a day like today." "There is none cold," a servant whispered. Aly waved reporters to a tray of aperitifs, turned to Rita and said: "Come, they want to photograph us on the balcony like Romeo and Juliet...
...author explains that Sam Hamilton is Irish, but even poetic Irishmen must sometimes break down into plain, unmetered English. The fact is that even not being Irish does not save some of the other characters from this same precisely-accented. false speech. Lee, the Chinese servant, would be an appealing person if he spoke just plain excellent English, instead of Mr. Steinbeck's pretty sentences...
...Widow Bardell's breach-of-promise suit, Mr. Pickwick (George Howe) counts for much more on the stage than he does in the book. This means-and it is the measure of where Dickens suffers most-that Mr. Pickwick counts for much more than his gloriously Dickensian servant, Sam Weller. The trial scene, too, though it is made the climax of the evening, has been shorn of its full comic grandeur, with Mr. Serjeant Buzfuz's appearance in it all too brief. But Stiggins, the red-nosed parson, and Jingle and Mrs. Leo Hunter and many others have...
...student far more healthy and constructive than in Europe. "American teachers have much more respect for the student. Students don't learn to be meek and mousey: they're invited to speak up. In Germany, the teacher is the master, the pupil is a little 'pimpf'. The master-servant relationship in the German school and family was the Hitler regime on a small scale, a preparation...