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...speech struck home in Moscow. Marshall and Dulles could read those reactions in the words of Ilya Ehrenburg, Moscow journalist: "Don't these misters understand that if we stood up before the armies of Hitler we shall not shake before a dozen rattling speeches...
...Mackenzie King stepped out of his office in Ottawa's Parliament Building, padded across the corridor with a portfolio under his arm, pushed aside the green. curtains and stepped into the House of Commons. There was a pattering of applause and some members walked to his desk to shake his hand. The 72-year-old Prime Minister had looked wan and tired when he went away. Now he was ruddy, rested and in high spirits. A month of soaking up southern sunshine had done him good...
...million amateur bowlers: the approach is the most important thing, four even steps with no sudden stop when the ball is released (though he himself, an exception to his own rules, takes five); the arm should swing up as if the bowler were throwing it up to shake hands with someone; the eyes should not be on the pins but on a point at the foul line where the ball will first touch. But there is one thing more: "Varipapa is rhythmical . . . that's why he's the greatest...
...auto industry, the telephone system, the railroads. They were only twitchings, but not to be disregarded on that account. Another industrial convulsion such as shook the country in 1945-1946 would not only wreck the nation's prestige when prestige was so important in world politics, it might shake the whole rickety world right down to its boots...
...Vouts (pronounced Vowts), prefixed names with the symbol "cat-o," said "scooto" for goodbye, and added "reeny" to almost every other word to give it class. When two male Vouts met they whirled their "jelly chains" (three-foot watch chains), bent, backwards from the knees, and reached up to shake hands at eye level. New Orleans girls were wearing bells on their shoes and carrying ''slam books"-notebooks in which they exchanged brutally frank comment on all their friends...