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...Barclay (melvyn Douglas), who is as efficient as she and even more mechanical. In this she succeeds, clearing up a nice domestic mess (spoiled child, neurotic sister, filching servants, and all) on the side, only to find that she is a wife in name only. Julia's efforts to shake her husband out of his stodgy absorption in business finally succeed in a grand drunk at the expense of the butler's supply of Scotch. If half your pleasure in the late lamented Harvard football season was the drunks in the stands, weep no more, for here is a lovely...
What this sentence implied-publication of a list of profiteering exporters or a New Deal bill to crack down on them-hardly mattered. To bankers negotiating foreign loans a negative shake of the State Department's head has almost always been enough to squelch any deal. Though it is unthinkable that any administration should deliberately use laws enacted for other purposes to harass those who do defy its wishes, most businessmen know they would be foolhardy indeed to risk offending the eternal bureaucracy which at any time is able to do a number of unthinkable things...
Another Egyptian lickspit, if possible more heartily detested by his people than the Premier, is Ismail Sidky Pasha. He once made a fine puppet Premier for Britain (1930-33) and itches for that palmy job again. In an effort to shake Britain down and make it seem necessary to buy his silence, Statesman Sidky abruptly flew into a rabble-rousing rage last week, roared out part of what any Egyptian leader would say if he tried to speak for the long-oppressed and today spunkless Egyptian people...
Though Marshal Pietro Badoglio made an 800-mile flight from G. H. Q. at Asmara straight across Ethiopia to the headquarters of the Southern Army, the expected simultaneous advance did not take place, nor was there any general shake-up in the Italian command...
...south entrance of the palace, a huge young Galla lifted his open hand and struck the great dull-brown Negarit (Em-peror's) war drum. OMMMM . . . OMMMMM . . . Forty smaller kettledrums from the palace answered, rommo-mmommommommomm. The booming throbbed, swelled, seemed to shake the air. On each of the mountain tops that hang over Addis Ababa other drummers smacked their drumheads. The monotonous, terrible call to war spread out from the capital, from mountain top to mountain top, across the wild gorges, jungles and plateaus of Ethiopia, until it rolled into the capitals of the six great rases (princes...