Word: booting
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...spectacled Admiral Harold R. Stark, out of his job as Chief of Naval Operations (since 1939) and sent him off to London. There, with his four-star rank, he will command U.S. Naval forces operating in European waters (almost none). The change gave Stark's operations functions to boot-tough, 63-year-old Admiral Ernest Joseph King...
...Cosmetic dealers, bound by no food & drug act, were selling boot polish as mascara, commercial lacquer as nail varnish, powdered paint as rouge...
Poland's future, as well as that of the entire continent, lies in a new order that is being developed in opposition to Hitler's order, and under the boot of Hitler's legions, the professor predicted. Poland's immediate post-war aim should be a rapprochement with Russia so that the brother Slavic nations could follow their common destinies, he said...
Deems Taylor is not only a charming and witty talker, a keyman in four radio programs, a highly successful scribbler of books and of introductions to other people's books; he is a composer to boot. Last week Americans were pricked into awareness of that half-forgotten fact when the enterprising Philadelphia Opera Company (TIME, Feb. 9) put on the world premiere of the first new Deems Taylor opera in eleven years, Ramuntcho...
Passing to other matters, I find a new volume, the "Jazz Record Book," on the market, and have duly and avidly snapped it up. The authors, all learned authorities on jazz lore, analyze over a thousand representative records, most of them available today, and include to boot a short history of Jazz, which seems to have been compressed from "Jazzmen," which appeared a couple of years ago. Obviously an ambitions book like this cries out for more attention than this little squib can give, and it will get it next week. . . . Mike Levin, who started this column three scaut years...