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...nation that has burnt its fingers before in refusing to recognize past mistakes, this sudden, realistic awakening of the Army should be welcome to say the least. It is reassuring that an Army fighting for democracy should try itself to understand the meaning of the word. This couldn't be said for our Army of 1917. Then, as in the twenties, the Army High Commond preached that democracy was the bunk. It put out a pamphlet on civics in which it referred to democracy as communistic, anarchic, a government of the mob. Many Army officers have since repented for this...
...Thrice-burnt by its disastrous experiences with the Shenandoah, .the Macon, the Akron, the U.S. Navy has dreaded lighter-than-air craft. Nevertheless, a little group of enthusiasts, led by Captain Charles Emery Rosendahl, plugged persistently for a whopping airship program. The new blimp squadrons are the first reward of their efforts...
...young Keyes with 30 men made his way to a wadi, near Sidi Raffa, Administrative H.Q. of Rommel's Afrika Corps. Here they lay for two days and nights awaiting the zero hour of the Brit ish attack. When the time came the Commandos daubed their faces with burnt cork, crawled over the desert to the German headquarters building...
...aged, but not altered. Gone, to be sure (except when he donned them for one nostalgic inning when he pitched Margie and If You Knew Susie into a waiting audience's lap), were the burnt cork and the white-rimmed goggles. But the eyes still popped, the voice still beckoned, the legs still scissored as though in time with an incredibly fast march. More of an imp than a comic, more of a song salesman than a singer, more of a ground-coverer than a hoofer, Eddie Cantor still rated the big time for his invaluable gift of always...
Answer. In Buffalo, N.Y., Harran Ali asked Allah to get his wife out of the reformatory, made a burnt offering of his coat, afire on a pole in front of the County Hall. Result: a $5 fine for disorderly conduct...