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...rose the local's president, a rangy, hard-bitten man named "Happy" Kundrock. "Happy" looked out the window where the U.S. flag fluttered above the Pursglove Mine. Said he: "I believe that Old Glory should wave above the tipples at any time. But, as they once said in Pennsylvania, we'll damned well die for you, but we'll be damned if we ever scab...
...Luther Leinuel Green. We've figured their messman pay, their court-martial fines, their SKMC, AOD, S and FSD, and many other alphabetical sins and virtues. (Who ever said the New Deal started the alphabet on its way to fame? We think the Navy rates the distinction!). We've bitten off many a pencil point over Kirby's flight pay and Hancock's advance pay and Cadaret's promotion pay. We know them so well by now that we're going to miss them, even though we expect to feel more at ease on land...
Thereafter, hard-bitten Helen Chernen, capable of any chicanery, arranges destiny with a stilettoed hand. She breaks up Runkel & Collins, installs Katherine as Runkel's dancing partner, then jettisons Runkel to get the girl a chance on Broadway. Next she destroys their marriage, drives Runkel to suicide, finally soars to a champagne triumph on Katherine's conquests as a musicomedy star. But for Katherine the corruption of success, at first intoxicating, finally becomes too gory; she runs off with the man Helen loves. Nothing is left for Helen but the river...
Slow But Not Sure. Yet no one has better reason to know that this hope is illusory than tough, hard-bitten Jerry Land. Shortly after Land gave his testimony, Winston Churchill in London was indicating why. One reason that shipping losses have been so big, said Mr. Churchill, is the slow speed of transatlantic convoys. In part, this is because both Britain and the U.S. have pressed into service many an old tramp freighter. But, as Navy men know well, the indictment also falls against new ships coming out of U.S. yards-notably the famous Liberty...
...months she had struggled against the sex prejudice that had tried to get her out of Moscow. Now, she exclaimed to the press bureau chief: "Do you think I am crazy enough to stay on in a place where there isn't a bathtub, where bedbugs have bitten me ... where everything smells awful...