Word: bon
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week a grateful people, speaking through their President, officially cited Wake's Marines for "devotion to duty and splendid conduct at their battle stations. . . ." And Wake went down in the Corps's history with its other bright stars -the battle of the Bon Homme Richard against the Serapis, Tripoli, Trenton, Chapultepec, Samar, Tientsin, Belleau Wood, Blanc Mont, other bloody fields in every part of the world where Marines have fought and died...
...Wake a tiny band of Marines made more of the Corps's imperishable history that had its beginnings in the fighting tops of John Paul Jones's Ranger and Bon Homme Richard. They had been there since the first day of war, beating off attack after attack by the Jap. shooting down his planes, sinking his surface ships, probably knocking the spots out of his landing parties. It was "probably" because Wake's Marines-well-trained rifle marksmen, as all leathernecks are-were busy at their prime calling. Between fighting they had little time for dispensing news...
...their infancy. Featuring a distinctly amateur grade of photography and a plot which could not have passed the most leuient English A instructor, this film is definitely to be avoided. If you're a good linguist and have the sort of imagination which reads vicious innuendo into the simplest "bon jour" or "mauvais unit," you may get a kick out of this picture; otherwise you might just as well try Harper's for light reading. By far the most interesting feature of the program is the short, "The Birth of Life." This title's a take, too. "The Birth...
When armed U.S. merchant vessels leave U.S. ports for England this week (see p. 22), nobody will bid them a more anxious bon voyage than nine insurance men in lower Manhattan. These nine, who meet almost daily, are the Rate and Underwriting Committee of the American Cargo War Risk Reinsurance Exchange, which has outstanding $600,000,000 in war-risk insurance on U.S. cargoes over all the seven seas...
...Vivacious Liz Whitney, queen of show-horse equestriennes, will show her four famed hunters-Bon Nuit, First Night, Spring Hope and The Bear-who have won 479 ribbons this year. She hopes they can make it an even...