Word: caseyed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...staff of the Chicago Daily News took time out one night last week for an impressive collective binge to honor a newshawk come home to roost after 22 months on the battlefronts of World War II. Recipient of this kudos was red-faced, balding Robert Joseph Casey, quick of mind and ample of girth, who has been a fair-haired Newsboy since 1920. His standing on the News is such that when his boss, Colonel Frank Knox, congratulated him on a series about the war, he amiably remarked: "I'm glad you like them because they cost you about...
Correspondent Casey has seen this war in all its peculiar phases and helped mightily in making the News foreign coverage the best in the U.S. During the days of the Bore War he waddled in a taxicab through the Siegfried Line, spent many a pleasant afternoon on a terrace in Luxemburg dreaming up antics for a French flier he referred to as "Albert le Screwball." He fled before the Nazis in France, was in London during the worst bombardments. The wheeze of his laughter was never stilled whether he was jaunting in Ireland, following the British in North Africa...
...Casey dictum, and there are many, is that "only people with poor equipment or foresight have adventures." On that principle, he usually makes use of all kinds of bleak understatements in his reports to his home office. One of them from London read: "Hotel just blown out from under me. Filing tomorrow. Regards." For maladroit London censors, Casey was a baffling problem. Effective was his ironic report of an air raid in which he reduced censorship to complete inanity by refusing to mention even the name of the country bombed...
Still carrying on at his desk, although relieved of his post and title by Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek because of the catastrophe, was plucky, chubby Mayor K. C. ("Casey") Wu, still proud of his municipal-built dugouts. The confidence of Chungking's fighting little men in their Air-Raid Protective System, still the world's best, was, however, shaken...
Concluding a successful season, the Glee Club and Pierian Sodality Brass section presented the final Yard concert of the season last night to a crowd of over 2000 students and towns-people. Meet warmly received was the rendition of "Casey Jones." At the close of the program members of the University joined the Glee Club in the singing of College songs...