Word: chapman
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Major Warren C. Chapman (Nevada City, Calif.), attacking a strongly held building, called for artillery fire at a point only 75 yards from his own men. Five direct hits landed on the place. Said Chapman: "When the smoke cleared, the building wasn't there any more...
...this horrible mistake which will most certainly carry us right into the abyss of Communism." Cited as U.S. industry's leading lady (by the National Association of Manufacturers), one of the country's ten best-dressed women (by the Fashion Academy), 100 outstanding women (by Mrs. Carrie Chapman Catt), Miss Kellems explained that she needs the Government's money to build her reserve because her own money is tied up in a reserve of materials. To Secretary of the Treasury Morgenthau, her stand "smack[ed] of disloyalty...
Counter Point. In Omaha, Neb., Post Office Clerk Neil Chapman braced himself for the remarks of a lady who approached him with one of the office's pens. She wanted the pen point's name & number because it wrote so well...
...notable occasion he was asked to investigate a home run made by his friend Chapman on what some spectators claimed was a foul ball and took leave of Byron, remarking, "Guess I'll be pretty busy looking into this homer of Chapman's." Byron affected deafness...
...kicked the dog and carried on. " 'When I make up my mind to deliver spuds,' he remarked afterward to Chapman, 'I have no intention of letting a pomme de terre me.' Chapman took no notice." The Retort Discourteous. O'Nolan is in a class by himself in adapting outworn instruments to his journalistic purpose...