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Attempts to escape were punished with the utmost severity conceivable to the commandant: they were denounced as "discourteous." And a British general caught hanging over the wall on a rope was reprimanded by the guard who spotted him: "No, no, my General! Please...
Depreciation. In London, Stanley Dingley sued his wife for divorce but failed to collect ?250 damages from the corespondent when a judge ruled that "her value to her husband was diminishing from year to year because of disagreements [and] the utmost I shall allow...
...successful announcer needs more than a voice and a passable appearance. He must be what the admen call "sincere." This means that his devotion to the product he is selling rivals the dedication of an old-style Japanese samurai to his Emperor. Stark is everywhere conceded to bring the "utmost in sincerity" to his commercials. Says NBC Vice President Ted Cott: "He's got the real calico touch." According to CBS's James Sirmons, when a TV director wants super-sincerity in a commercial, he tells the announcer: "Give it the Dick Stark treatment...
Citation: "Architect of the 'Six Pillars of Peace'; for four decades now entrusted repeatedly . . . with international missions requiring the utmost in expertness . . .; his most recent triumph . . . the making of peace with Japan ... a 'peace of regeneration' . . . enviable...
Subtlety & Superiority. One critic who saw nothing strange about the Mono, Lisa was the 16th century's Giorgio Vasari, who praised the painting for its naturalism. "In this head," Vasari wrote, "every peculiarity that could be depicted by the utmost subtlety of the pencil has been faithfully reproduced . . . Mona Lisa was exceedingly beautiful, and while Leonardo was painting her portrait, he took the precaution of keeping someone constantly near her, to ... amuse her, to the end that she might continue cheerful...