Word: anderson
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Idaho-born Ezra Pound, who has been in Italy since 1924 and broadcasts for the Fascists, and these Berlin propagandists: Chicago-born Douglas Chandler, Iowan Fred Kaltenbach, Georgian Jane Anderson, Pennsylvanian Constance Drexel...
...small, tough strategist who as British Middle East commander planned the westward rout of Rommel. As Eisenhower's chief deputy, Alexander would have direct command over all ground forces: the British Eighth Army (General Sir Bernard Law Montgomery), the British First Army (Lieut. General Kenneth A. N. Anderson), the U.S. Fifth Army (Lieut. General Mark Wayne Clark), the French West African Army (General Henri Giraud...
...come home some evening with a terrific appetite, don't rush to supper. Relax, as I did, in the coziest little armchair imaginable, and read a delightful article on page 81, called "Children Can Be Taught Life," by Dorothy May Anderson. It's all about how the author, when but a tot of twelve, too so long arranging the flowers for the table that she had an awful time getting lunch prepared on time...
...story reaches a furious climax in paragraph two, when young Miss Anderson's father arrives "at just the moment that I paid the inevitable penalty of nervous haste by spilling the salmon and peas all over the kitchen floor. I was on the verge of a tearful collapse (it says here)--my pride completely crushed." (Now here was such pathos, such tragedy, such stark realism, that I just had to go on to the next paragraph, without even stopping to order my customary scotch and water...
...called down to the cook and told her to fix up a nice hot plate of forget-me-nots and to be sure and have a prettily-arranged vase of salmon and peas sitting in the very middle of the table. Because I felt that Dorothy May Anderson's father was right: forget-me-nots are more important than food. In fact, it's a wonder nobody has ever thought of them before. They would probably make a ravishingly scrumptious salad. Besides, I never did feature salmon and peas--in any form...