Word: unless
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...always been able to get one. On Oct. 4, I taxied from Blackfriars to Harley Street during a raid. Suddenly the guns went into action overhead. My driver turned to me and said: "Madam, the raiders are overhead, would you care to take cover?" "Not unless you want to," I replied. He withered me with a look and drove on. This is the rule, not the exception...
Last week the Wang Ching-wei puppetry faced a crisis. Mr. Chou gathered in Shanghai a conference of Chinese financiers who had agreed to back Wang's Japanese-sponsored regime. They announced that they would not continue to support Wang unless he were "relegated to a minor capacity in all financial decisions." By week's end their pressure had been felt. Nanking announced formation of the Central Reserve Bank, to have entire charge of putting Nanking currency on its feet throughout occupied China. Named as Governor of the Bank: Chou...
Servants of the Bellows, "to be blown into office annually unless blown out," are High Wind (President) William Rumboll of Ernst, Berg & Cia.; Whirlwinds (Secretaries) George Ward and Alan Murray, both of London & South American Investment Trust; Receiver of Windfalls (Treasurer) and Keeper of the Windbag (Assistant Treasurer) Colin Shearer and George Collins, respectively...
...characters and inspirations-the ups & downs of the Hon. Freddie Threepwood, Lord Emsworth's useless boy, who finally gets himself an American heiress and a job in her father's dog-biscuit business ("I can't think what they would use him for," mused Lord Emsworth, "unless as a taster"); or the love-and-golf short stories of that Ancient Mariner of the links, the Club Bore...
...Major, Debussy's First Rhapsody. No one should have been surprised. Trained in his youth by a Chicago Symphony clarinetist, Franz Schoepp, Benny Goodman can tootle with the two or three best in the world. Critics could find little fault with his playing of Mozart and Debussy-unless it was a slight excess of refinement and dignity...