Word: brogan
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Last week the New York Herald Tribune asked some handy historians what they were calling it. Said Englishman Denis W. Brogan, now lecturing at Yale: "Maybe after a time I shall call this the atomic war, or the world war, part two." But to him, World War I was no world war, since it had hardly involved Asia and the Pacific. Said Columbia University's Henry Steele Commager: "President Roosevelt tried to find a fancy name, but . . . these wars are too big for descriptive names...
According to Associate Principal Hugh Brogan, who made the survey, results were not all money in the pocket: they included sleepiness in class, sluggishness in football and dramatics, a general burning of the candle at both ends. But these high-school taxpayers were more independent and assertive than prewar classes, needed less discipline. Some of them, already dollarwise, flatly declined to report their incomes on their questionnaires. Wrote one: "None of your nose...
...months Manhattan's tweedy jack-of-all letters, Christopher Morley and Britain's critic-historian (and authority on U.S. matters), Denis Brogan, with a partner apiece, have pitched "stumpers" at each other by short wave. The questions are designed to determine "who knows most about the other's country." The show's aim: to promote Anglo-American understanding with geniality instead of gags, and without benefit of cash awards...
Author Morley's current team mate is veteran comedian Frank Fay (Harvey); last week Professor Brogan's was Banker H. W. Auburn. Asked by Morley on what date U.S. citizens set off firecrackers, Auburn ventured: "I should say that would be on this day when all the children come 'round and turn out your dustbins." Cracked Fay: "Rubbish." Brogan knew it was the Fourth of July; the British team also knew that cherry pie was eaten on George Washington's birthday, that trees were planted on Arbor...
...cracker with soup," queried Morley across the roaring Atlantic, "took some kale and landed in stir, what was going on?" Banker Auburn knew that a cracker was a Georgian, knew that kale was cash, and that stir was jail, but guessed that soup was also money. Corrected Professor Brogan happily: "High explosive for opening banks...