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...conversation emphasized the small talk of people in the middle of a big war-only 20 minutes flying time distant from a Nazi aerodrome. People said "God Bless" to each other the way Americans say "Good-by." The maid at the hotel said "Thank you" each time she served a dish. A salvage worker proudly told how Cromer won the East Anglia salvage contest. There were echoes of a hot controversy about whether the church should set its wall back to make more room for parked cars. A German bomb had settled that...
...Sambula vanaka" is the native greeting, meaning "God bless you," and the shortened "bula" means "hello." U.S. soldiers and grinning natives shout "bula" at each other whenever they meet. One day a corporal said "bula" to a black boy. Reply: "Bula, hell, I came over on the boat with...
...Lincoln's death inspired Little Tad ("God bless the little orphan boy, a father's darling pride"), post-war scorn for the South jelled into the unwarranted Jeff in Petticoats. The absurd feminine posture of the late '60s, called the Grecian Bend, was ribbed in a song. So was the style of tasseled shoes...
Wendell Willkie conferred with Egypt's Premier Mustafa El Nahas Pasha, looked over U.S. troop installations, spoke to U.S. soldiers with amiable profanity: "I just want to say I'm damned glad to see you. God bless you and give 'em hell." He regretted he could not give U.S. correspondents the latest baseball news (see p. 50). When he rebuked the strict Mideast censorship a reporter cried, "Thanks...
Last Word. In Manhattan, a British tar who had spent part of the night at a bar telling U.S. sailors how much better everything is in Britain, awoke with a hangover and a pain in his chest, found he had been tattooed with the U.S. flag and "God Bless America...