Word: along
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Herbert Gaston's chief job within a job is to direct the Coast Guard on peace patrol. Along with the Navy (which last week began to recommission 116 ancient destroyers for patrol), the Coast Guard will range the Atlantic Coast and 200 miles...
...Kennedy Way. The Maritime Commission operates today on a pattern Chairman Joe Kennedy laid out for it in 75 16-hour days-even as the Securities and Exchange Commission yet works along the lines he laid down in 431 work-crammed days...
...railroad and single highway were jammed with refugees, walking, creaking along in wagons, only a few so lucky as to have automobiles. A trainload of war-wounded, had to wait hours every few miles while its crew repaired blown up rails. The diplomatic exodus came to rest at Sniatyn, a town near the Rumanian border where there were boarding school dormitories. Ambassador Biddle got a fine "mansion" on the main street. There were no lights, of course, and no running water, but his wife and family were safe. His British neighbors across the way marveled to see him sweating, stripping...
...along with all this there was: "You must believe me if I tell you that the thesis of a long war weakening a nation is not true. With every year we will grow stronger...
...Edward ("Eddie") Marsh knows as many such stories as there were incredible characters in preWar, bilingual British society. In A Number of People he strings them along on the bright, thin thread of his own life story with all the wit, charm, and intimate malice of a puckish British Proust. Unlike Proust, Marsh seldom sees through his irascible, Latinizing, fox-hunting dukes and musical, horsey, but absent-minded duchesses, although their snobbishness often makes him wince...