Word: airings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...orders. When France went to war in 1914, thousands of members of secret, mufti-wearing orders emerged from their bolt-holes to serve la patrie. The number of aumôniers (chaplains) in the French forces was limited-400 in the army, 50 in the navy, none in the air force. Most priests were assigned to noncombatant duties. A few had anticlerical officers who forced them to fight. A few more fathers showed a taste for fighting and fought bravely. So grateful was the Government that the Laic Law was thereafter suspended, and an attempt by Edouard Herriot to revive...
Crack British flyer Amy Johnson, who angrily enlisted as a lorry driver when the Civil Air Guard turned her down as an aviatrix, was fined 10s. in a Cardiff, South Wales, court for driving without a license, ?3 for not stopping when ordered, ?2 for careless driving, 178. 6d. for not observing blackout headlight restrictions. Total fine: $25.50. The arresting constable complained that Amy used her nails on him, but she held her fingers up to the judge, said, "You can see I haven't got the kind of nails which scratch." To the officer's accusation that...
Beford World War II broke, the number of army aumƦniers was increased to 600. The navy quota remained the same; the air force got 30. Catholic aumônier general (chaplain general), commanding 500-odd Catholic aumƦniers, is Monsignor Maurice Sudour, Archdeacon of St. Denis, who gets a general's pay, wears a general's star. Ordinary chaplains have no rank, but a captain's pay, wear religious garb behind the lines, khaki at the front. By special dispensation from Rome, all Catholic aumƦniers and other front-line priests may hear...
...signals and warning signals for low gas & oil, hot motor, faulty ignition, etc. Pointing up comfort, safety, economy, new models are generally longer, lower, wider, roomier, with increased visibility and lots more chromium. Steering column gearshift relegates to the archives the old wobble-stick. Running boards are mostly optional. Air-conditioned heaters are highly favored...
...Asiatics and The Seven Who Fled, Frederic Prokosch has shown a facile imagination and a brilliant hand at silken, vivid prose. Ostensibly a narrative of travel from Syria to China, The Asiatics told of hair-raising adventures, lubriciously glamorous encounters, incredible coincidences and cosmic conversations with the casual air of an article in the National Geographic. More Spenglerian than picaresque, The Seven Who Fled brought together to their mutual doom seven characters symbolic of European races, let them slowly disintegrate with their bewildered sensuality and inter minable talk into the vast oblivion of Asia...