Word: baileys
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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GOODBYE, PROUD WORLD-Margaret Emerson Bailey-Scribner ($3). Teacher-poetess-journalist Bailey describes with intelligent lack of sentiment her childhood in Providence and the benevolent influence of a gentle professor father and a charming, spirited mother...
Nevertheless, the Boz's roommate, Ned Bailey, says that we should note how well Boz did in his Disbursing recitation; but that's only because he took the Manual and Memo home with him on leave--Ned saw him packing them. Now Ned says that even when he, Bailey, works his normal 23 hours a day he can't keep up with his roommate in this course...
There were other harsh words on the Senate floor. When North Carolina's Josiah William Bailey sought to apply the principle of the May-Bailey bill to the Senate's hodge-podge affair, he was soundly beaten. Bitterly he said: "Cologne fell today. Our soldiers may have to go on through Germany. Let them go, with the understanding that here at home we will do just as we please...
...without any close objective of strategic importance. To realize Remagen's fullest value, ten or even 20 more crossings of the Rhine were needed, crossings by every means possible: assault boats, amphibious armor and carriers, motor-driven rafts, pontoon bridges, pneumatic-float bridges, even perhaps by multiple-span Bailey bridges longer than any yet thrown together. In the north, the Rhine is wide...
Seldom, if ever, had Manhattan's chill Metropolitan Museum employed such warmly seductive tactics. Its exhibition of "Costumes from the Forbidden City" (in Peking) was a three-part combination of Max Reinhardt spectacle, Diaghilev ballet, and Barnum & Bailey side show...