Word: alexandria
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...American people warmhearted, aware of their responsibilities and impatient of injustice, he said. Another virtue: "The Americans have something which is missing in England today-beautiful manners." Sir Osbert even had a gaudy tribute for New York, "the most beautiful and inspiring of modern creations, the sole heir to Alexandria, Constantinople and Venice." In Pittsburgh, whose smoke she spoofs in her show, Inside U.S.A., Beatrice Lillie (Lady Peel) accepted a nosegay of white roses from Mayor David L. Lawrence, accompanied him to a mountain top for a clear view of the city. ("Fortunately," reported the Pittsburgh Press...
...elimination of the French Navy [at Oran, Alexandria and Dakar] . . . produced a profound impression in every country. Here was this Britain which . . . strangers had supposed to be quivering on the brink of surrender . . . striking ruthlessly at her dearest friends of yesterday . . . It was made plain that the British War Cabinet feared nothing and would stop at nothing...
Chiefly, this is the story of how spare, fox-faced Martinet Montgomery chased Desert Fox Rommel's famed Afrika Korps 1,850 miles, from the gates of Alexandria into Tunisia. In his writing, as in battle, Monty has neither Eisenhower's scope nor Patton's dash and saltiness. Readers who want the smell and smoke of battle will not get it here. But El Alamein should appeal to chess players. Every move of every battle is explained with the logic, the patience and the bland assurance of an instructor demonstrating a foolproof system. Writes Monty: "I have...
...remained staunchly Democratic after Congressman Charles Creighton Carlin Sr., of Alexandria, who had worked briefly as a reporter on the Gazette, bought it in 1911 from the Snowden heirs. Now Editor C. C. Carlin Jr., 49, the courtly, conservative son of the late Congressman, runs the Gazette in the same unreconstructed way. He proudly displays the Stars & Bars alongside an autographed photograph of Robert E. Lee in his tiny, cluttered office, just as proudly boasts that the Gazette was the first and northernmost newspaper to raise a rebel yell in the Dixiecrats' cause...
...once got most of its outside news by printing the letters of traveling readers as "foreign correspondence" now has U.P. and A.P. service and a list of national columnists (Winchell, Bob Hope, E. V. Durling). But it also keeps its smalltown flavor and emphasis on local affairs, and as Alexandria's only daily, mines a profitable lode of local advertising. It makes little attempt to compete with nearby Washington papers...