Word: cutlasses
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...that would be a long way in the future. And the future? "The future," he has written, "is an enemy marching. . . . I go out to meet it-with a cutlass in my hand...
More important to Ben Hecht than a cutlass, however, was his Aunt Chasha's umbrella. Once when he was six, Tante Chasha crashed her umbrella down on the head of a theater manager who had asked her to apologize. Outside in the street she told young Ben with a sunny smile: "Remember what I tell you. That's "the right way to apologize." Ben never forgot...
...Navy was playing at war in two oceans last week. This was no cunningly timed cutlass-rattling. It was simply that both the fleet and the Marine Corps had green personnel who needed shaking down...
...about the finer points of literary art and navigation. Author Jennings, who wrote 1939's best-selling Next to Valour (TIME, June 12, 1939), is an old hand: he knows how to cram a historical novel full to bursting with blood, sweat and tears, and can wield both cutlass and bobby-pin with sangfroid...
Unwillingly at home, chafing for news of the show was the Commandos' boss, gay but cutlass-keen Captain the Lord Louis Mountbatten, 41-year-old second cousin of King George, great-grandson of Queen Victoria. Lord Louis, who has had four ships shot out from under him in naval action, was recently made head of the Combined Operations Department, now reports only to the Prime Minister...