Word: barrettes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Hurley sent ahead no advance notices. As his transport circled Yenan's airport, the hinterland city of 40,000 went into a dither. First to greet the visitor was U.S. Army Observer Colonel David Dean Barrett, an old China hand, who was dressed in a faded, padded blue-cotton greatcoat over his woolen olive drab. General Hurley wore correct two-star uniform, complete with three rows of campaign ribbons, Mexican Aztec Eagle, White Eagle of Yugoslavia, D.S.C. (for gallantry in World War I) and U.S. Distinguished Service Medal with oakleaf cluster. Cracked the Colonel: "General, you have...
Riding into the city in Mao's car, Pat Hurley unlimbered some of his best anecdotes. Colonel Barrett translated with idiomatic gusto. As the car forded the shallow Yen River, General Hurley cracked: "It reminds me of my old home in Oklahoma. There you could tell when a school of fish was swimming upriver by the cloud of dust it raised...
Rear Admiral Jesse Barrett Oldendorf, commanding a powerful, balanced task force, put into effect his policy of "never give a sucker an even break." If the Japs were suckers enough to try to drive through the Strait, he meant to let them come. They came, into the twelve-mile-wide pass between Hingatungan and well-named Desolation Point...
...first (1922) was Mrs. Helen Barrett Montgomery of Rochester...
...versatile career has included such checkered roles as Elizebeth Barrett Browning, St. Joan, Juliet, and the lead in "Bill of Divorcement," her first prominent part. Although "The Barretts of Wimpole Street" extended to 900 performances, Miss Cornell's favorites are Shavian and Shakespearian roles. As she has no other plans beyond her current production, she may perform "The Barretts" again for a year's run in army camps. Her husband, director Guthrie McClintic, who directed "Lovers and Friends," co-decides with her in the selection of all her manuscripts, she revealed...