Word: asked
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...from the actual fighting, we sit and rot in stinking, malarial jungles and have time to think-and my mind becomes corroded with what I read. Those boys who are about to die, those who may be maimed, those who may live a lingering death with tropical disease, they ask so little. They will fight for you if you but give them the weapons. They will die so that you may have pretty homes and happy families, but don't let them lose faith...
...collection of Chinese and Japanese books, housed below the building in stacks through which run sinister oriental alleys. Through new intensive courses in Japanese, Cantonese, and Mandarin, the H.-Y. Institute is responsible for one of Harvard's major contributions to the war effort, as grinning section men daily ask "How you say dis please?" The least of the building's occupants was the informal Harvard Peeping Tom Society, which collapsed after a few weeks last summer when the dim-out and finally the closing of the Reading Room and the front door shut off the Wigglesworth landscape...
Replied Hazel: "You didn't ask...
Certainly no one expects us to take literally the story and description of these gremlins. I am, however, sufficiently interested to ask for a confirmation of my skepticism or a reaffirmation of the literal truthfulness of this story...
...Hazel Scott has been entertaining Café Society audiences ever since. Two years ago Showman Josephson opened a Cafe Society Uptown to house her art with greater swank, now finds it packed nightly with Scott fans: socialites, Broadway sophisticates, savants-about-town. Celebrities regard her with reverence, movie stars ask her for autographs. When Lieut. Commander John Duncan Bulkeley (They Were Expendable) came to New York, he picked out Hazel Scott on the welcoming platform, greeted her with "I've always wanted to meet you, Miss Scott...