Word: cols
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Life with Father. "Don't you let them get you down," urged a col lege friend, after "Putrid" Woollcott (also known as "Slimer") had been tossed into the campus fountain for the ump teenth time. "You're going to be a greater [Samuel] Johnson." Young Woollcott agreed - though there is no evidence that he ever had the slightest conception of what macte Samuel...
These men come to despise their sergeant (Billy Hartnell) so intensely that they formally charge him with abusing a martinet's privileges. But when the sergeant talks it over with his lieutenant (ex-star Lieut. Col. David Niven), you begin to realize just how much wisdom sometimes lies behind systematically rigid discipline. The sergeant's conclusion: "We haven't got a dud there...
...Promptly recognized Eduard Benes' new Czechoslovak Government (see col...
...munitions magnate, arrested him "by order of the President," and whisked him off to Buenos Aires' gloomy Grenadier's Barracks. Simultaneously, the Government decreed the expropriation of IMPA, Mandl's ambitious arms factory. It was the most astonishing event in Argentina's busy week (see col...
Then ex-Lieut. Col. Millard Tydings, A.E.F., got down to stronger words: "Think of the men standing on the battlefronts in the dark, learning that back home the great Congress of the U.S. has said that the people at home are doing a good enough job, nobody is to be bothered, a man can loaf if he wants to and there will be no penalty. . . . I think we are cowardly in this Congress, when we read that up to this time 1,000,000 men have been killed, wounded, or are missing, and permit unlawful strikes to take place...