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...wiry little officer said grimly: "Some one's going to get relieved over this." A flyer, an old hand with greying hair and a cynical look, said: "Well, that's three I've seen go-the Lex, the Yorktown and now this baby." A thin-faced chief petty officer said: "I'm thinking of those boys on Guadal." The ship's executive officer said merely: "We'll just have to develop better methods of detection...
...three weeks all-important theories about the flour were discussed and examined from every angle. Then the crier, walking slowly on bare feet, shouted in a loud, thin voice: "Tomorrow. At the Church of Saint Nicholas." Those who were about to die tried to live another...
...bone-thin, ardent, intellectual Hindu statesman who bears the formidable name of Chakravarti Rajagopalachariar (pronounced Chakravarti Rajagopalachariar) had ideas last week for an Indian settlement. C. R. wanted to be asked to London. Said he: "I feel the British people have been misled in connection with the Indian problem, and I believe I can make them see the truth...
...handy coaling station and therefore a bright military jewel which, with Gibraltar and Suez, gave the empire control of the Mediterranean. This was not to say that the Maltese themselves remained altogether satisfied with the latest rulers. The Maltese farmers, descendants of the Phoenicians, illiterate, pious, aloof, tilling the thin crust of soil which lies on the island's rock, did not much care. But the city Maltese, largely descendants of the retinues of the Knights, fervent Roman Catholics, clever and temperamental, felt uneasy under this new and beefy rule...
According to rumor, "The Magnificent Dope" was originally titled "The Magnificent Jerk." It doesn't make much difference, no matter how thin it's sliced. Henry Fonda has played a country yokel so often that Li'I' Abner is not even a good second. Lynn Bari looks appealing enough to warrant the trouble the orchestra goes to whenever she shows up. Don Ameche gives a performance of a go-getting success salesman that wouldn't even do justice to Alexander Graham Bell. You can make some money taking bets about who's the "Magnificent Dope," Ameche, Fonda, or the innocent...