Word: brotherly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...James Thurber is a greying, railish six-footer who has been prolific of achievement in the face of physical handicap. For years specialists have been fighting to save Thurber's one remaining eye. The other was accidentally put out by an arrow in the hands of his eldest brother when James...
...very real ailment the Army diagnoses as "fatigue, whatever that is"-jitters, insomnia, loss of confidence and weight. One tense veteran of 39 missions was a hard nut to crack until the flight surgeon invited him out on a double date with two sisters who had a pilot brother. On finding the girls understood his language, the flyer began to talk about his combat experience, about seeing his friends crack up. After that he went back to the center, got three good nights' sleep, played 18 holes of golf the fourth day. Then he told the flight surgeon...
After some strategy shifts between the halves, the Crimson machine functioned all the way down the field, producing scores on 52 and 72 yard marches, with Paul Perkins plunging for the first, and brother Rod catching a pass for the other. Ed Donovan converted both times. A series of virtually unstoppable passes to six foot, four inch Fred Smith gave the Yanks a touchdown, bringing the score...
Family Circles. In a Boston court, George C. Halkett testified that he had found his wife with another man but did nothing about it because the man was a lodge brother. In Chicago, Mrs. Jewel L. Maloney won a divorce after complaining that her husband had reneged on his promise to wash the dishes, make the beds, do the housecleaning. In San Francisco, Mrs. Margaret E. Dayton, who complained that her husband constantly made her eat venison, won a divorce on the ground of cruelty...
Wellington suffered at the hands of the Duke of York, King George III, King George IV, King William IV, Sir Harry Burrard, the Horse Guards, his brilliant brother Richard, Lord Wellesley, Sir Hew Dalrymple, Sir Robert Peel, Lord Melbourne, his friend Lord Castlereagh, the Hindoos, the Portuguese, the Spanish generals. But in this long catalogue of enemies and enmity the most merciless, damaging and unrelenting were the English poets and prose writers, and the spirit of sardonic mockery they expressed, not only against the Duke but against the conservative principles for which he was the ablest warrior...