Word: crew
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Memphis Belle," a slightly fictionized account of the experiences of a bomber and its crew, may be used as an example of the "boy around the corner" sort of documentary. On an even more fictionized plane, and with a perhaps greater subjective appeal, take a look at Noel Coward's "In Which We Serve" and its khaki successor, David Nivens' "The Way Ahead...
...this gay crew was Edda's sister-in-law, lovely, slender Countess Maria Magistrati. Maria had a figure to dream of, even if her taste in brocades was atrocious. True, she had thrown herself away on the obscure Counsellor of the Italian Embassy in Berlin, but her cavaliers were many, her conquests for the union of Naziism and Fascism pleasantly won. Over-dieting finally killed...
...success." For more than a year "McGrew" and "McGee" lay with a sheaf of other manuscripts among Service's shirts. At last his "author complex" drove him to send them off to a publisher with oo to pay for 104 their private printing. The composing-room crew, who set up the ringing, romping lines in type, were so enthusiastic that the publisher returned Service's $100 and decided to take a chance on the book himself. He claims that Songs of a Sourdough sold 1,000,000 copies...
...When I was co-captain of the crew, we beat Navy, which was pretty good going, and were all set to face Cornell. Spec ran a story about how we were going to race Cornell and it didn't say anything about our beating Navy until the very last paragraph...
Soon after, the Council approved a new Managing Board for Spec, selected by KCAC. Named as editor-in-chief of the new board was Stanley Smith, a tall, husky V-12er who is acting captain of Lou Little's football eleven, captain of Columbia's crew, and target of the ousted Spec...