Word: brush
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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This imitative hysteria was something of a comic-strip episode because of the innocent brush which occasioned it. Contrary to a long-standing agreement, 16 armed plain-clothes Japanese gendarmes had sauntered into the U. S. defense sector of Shanghai's International Settlement. U. S. Marines arrested them, disarmed them, interned them. One was permitted to telephone his headquarters. Their commander called on Marine Commander Colonel DeWitt Peck and apologized for their mistake. The men were released. The incident was apparently closed...
...bewildering job. The Board had announced that it wanted 10,000 men, either 1) employed mechanics, or 2) unemployed (registered with the State Employment Service) with some machine experience, to be put through ten-week brush-up courses for work in U. S. armament factories. Many an applicant wanted to know how much he would be paid while studying (answer: nothing). Many another, eager to serve Uncle Sam, had given up his job to enroll. Among the applicants were night watchmen, janitors, clerks, boys who had never worked. Housewives phoned to recommend their husbands, explained that although the husbands were...
...picture of Franklin Roosevelt wearing a Hitler mustache. Mystified, Editor Martin looked over that day's editions, found a wirephoto of the President with a vague shadow on his upper lip that might have been mistaken for a penciled imitation of the Nazi Führer's brush...
...Statesman and Nation editorial said: "[Daladier] has a more personal responsibility for the initial military failure than any single British statesman. . . . There is little doubt that his going will influence political developments in Britain. Mr. Chamberlain, Lord Caldecote, Lord Simon and Sir Kingsley Wood . . . are tarred with the same brush...
...Hill did succeed in entertaining royalty: Queen Marie of Rumania, who left several crates of royal presents, crowned the huge edifice with the words: "There is a dream built into these walls." Sam Hill's dream house, standing out among the surrounding sage brush as incongruously as a top hat in a jungle, became a famed landmark. Some said Sam Hill expected to establish a monarchy in the neighboring mountains. Others hinted that he expected his castle to serve as officers' quarters in a future war with invading Japanese forces. To most Washingtonians it was simply "Sam Hill...