Word: catchings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Landing effected on the bank of the Yangtze northwest of Shanghai, the Japanese pushed southward on a broad front trying to catch the Chinese army in a pincers, of which their own forces in Shanghai were the other prong. General Pai Tsung-hsi promptly began to retire to the west, covering the railroad to Nanking...
There is nothing a cop likes better than to catch someone in a lie. Our favorite instance of this sort is the time a traffic policeman in the town of North Woodstock, New Hampshire, stopped a car for speeding. The driver was a woman. "Where you from?" the cop demanded. "Philadelphia," replied the lady. The cop put on a wise look and nodded his head. "Oh, so you're from Philadelphia, eh?" he said, sarcastically. "Well, if you're from Philadelphia, whatcha doin' with them Pennsylvania licence plates...
...shortage of army recruits has long been a catch in Britain's armament plans. Though the air force and navy are fully manned the army last week was 25,000 men shorthanded. Chief reason for this is on the lips of every Tommy-"We don't get enough bleeding pay." As Lieutenant Colonel Sir Arnold Wilson M. P. recently pointed out "army pay in every rank is lower than in the navy or in the air force." The general theory is that a sailor deserves more because he is forced to leave his sweethearts for long periods...
...troubled about the world. It was his curtain speech in The New Yorker. He was going away on a year's leave-of-absence, maybe a dozen years, to give himself time to think about progress & politics, whether to get out of their jumpy wake or try to catch up with them. He will probably consult with his melancholy colleague, James Grover Thurber, who is now in Europe sending back an occasional piece to The New Yorker...
...activity. During the last big French attack, Lena discharged De Queslain as cured, left him to make his way with the retreating Bulgarians. When they next met, Lena had joined a gang of Albanian pillagers about to attack the village, explaining that she had done so in order to catch Serbian spies. Her main concern at the moment, however, was to manage his escape. But De Queslain, who still thought she was trying to put something over on him, argued so long that the Albanians had already arrived and begun their slaughter and rape before he could be convinced. Lena...