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...piece of brass out of its hat last week. President Roosevelt ordered the most sweeping reorganization in the War Department's history. An organization hitherto as strangely assembled as Topsy's hair was streamlined to bullet-shape. Out the window went bottlenecks, bureaus and bric-a-brac -and the fusty old general staff setup. All old sections were packed into three new ones: Air Force, Ground Force and Supply. On top remains Chief of Staff George C. Marshall...
They flew over the chaotic tragedies of a landscape which from that height was as unpeopled as if it were in a museum case: "All that I see is the bric-a-brac of another age exhibited under a pure crystal without tremor." Saint-Exupéry, in his mind, revisited strange depths of his childhood; and meditated upon death, defeat, victory, treachery...
...depicted shadowy landscapes, sprawling human figures colored with the dull sheen of cast iron and stove polish. Weird, mystical canvases, as big as murals, showed mind-wrecking concepts like birth and death. Many, obscurely symbolic, writhed with brilliantly colored male and female figures, with fish and anthropomorphic bric-a-brac in a Freudian Walpurgisnacht...
...Theater Guild is busy rehearsing a Pennsylvania Dutch play (Papa Is All). U.S. advertising artists are using Pennsylvania Dutch tulip designs as borders for cosmetic ads. Every big Manhattan department store has stocked its shelves to cope with the trend. Most of the Pennsylvania Dutch bric-a-brac now sold commercially might bring blushes to the face of a good Mennonite, Dunkard or Amish. But U.S. housewives have set out to beat the Dutch...
...equally false that Peruvian troops "burned farms, confiscated crops, looted houses even of radio sets and bric-a-brac." . The Peruvian Army behaved with such discipline and sense of honor that the President of the Republic, in a speech he made on the 16th of August, has been able...