Word: bungalowed
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Beside his bungalow, in a tropical garden riotous with frangipani, hibiscus and flame trees, sat Douglas MacArthur. In one hand he held messages from the New Guinea front, in the other a quarter-head of green lettuce flown into New Guinea from the Australian mainland. As he read he munched, as he munched he reflected...
...been no picnic. His Australians had had to build steps through the jungles to get cannon over the razorback Owen Stanley Mountains. The rest was not going to be a pushover, said Lieut. General George Kenney, the dynamic airman who shares MacArthur's bungalow, and squat Australian General Sir Thomas Blarney warned of possible hard fighting after Buna fell. General Kenney noted that the Japs still had planes they had not yet used, but Allied air superiority was such that a million pounds of food and ammunition had been dropped to MacArthur's fighters in the mountains...
Chungking made itself ready. The Official guest bungalow, bright as its rhododendrons, was equipped with a powerful radio, a cook who could range from ham & eggs to Szechwan duck, and-another great luxury for China-soft toilet paper. But Wendell Willkie would only have to look out of his windows to see the great ridges packed with colorless shacks where Chungking's hundreds of thousands were enduring their sixth year...
Today Johnny Mercer lives in a Hollywood bungalow, tailors lyrics to fit the suavely hocketing voice of his friend Bing Crosby, rolls up between $50,000 and $85,000 a year in cinema lyric contracts and ASCAP royalties. A one-finger pianist, he does his composing with the help of Tunesmith Harold Arlen. After a two-hour stretch with Tunesmith Arlen, he usually knocks off for an afternoon of golf. Says Johnny: "If I get a good title and the first couple of lines within two hours, that's a damn good day. . . . Most of my titles and lyrics...
Whether or not these assertions were true, Gandhi could not publicly affirm or deny: he was locked up in a luxurious jail, the Aga Khan's million-rupee "bungalow" at Poona. But the British threatened use of the whip on rioters, execution of anyone sabotaging trains or communications...