Word: details
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...appointed Assistant Secretary in 1937 and told that he soon would be Secretary; how he and measeling Secretary Harry Hines Woodring were allowed to frustrate each other and the War Department for three racking years-even for gossipy Washington, this was a story too old, too petty in detail to bear extended repetition last week. What Washington did buzz about was the cynical climax of that story...
...Judge Patterson was wearing an Army private's blue fatigue overalls when he got his new job last week. In fact he was on the lowest detail which an Army private can get: kitchen police (taking out garbage, chopping wood) at the Plattsburg training camp. Colonel James I. Muir, the camp commander, forthwith ordered him out of the kitchen, was relieved to catch K. P. Patterson just before he began his menial chore...
Madame Dorthea is a study of a bourgeois wife & mother in the early months of widowhood. A really good novelist could have made something of the theme with no sales-trimmings. Madame Undset puts it in the 18th Century, replete with archeological detail, dopes it to the teeth with "colorful," superfluous characters, whips up a spurious suspense, and still is too much of a bourgeois wife & mother to bring...
...were undisciplined, Tommy Crump took to drilling them in the afternoons, using sticks as muskets, into the first cadet corps in any secondary school in the U. S. Minnesota's Episcopal Bishop Henry B. Whipple turned away from the Indians long enough to persuade the War Department to detail a regular Army officer as Commandant of Cadets to the school, named it for a rich and philanthropic Boston physician, Dr. George Cheyne Shattuck. One of the oldest prep schools west of the Mississippi, Shattuck is also one of the most famed military schools in the land...
...Spanish King's interests in the New World. On the voyage his mind fumbles toward the invention of the sextant, the use of Indian hammocks at sea, of pumps for bilge, copper sheathing against marine borers. He is fascinated -and so is the reader-by every detail of medieval navigation, by Columbus (half inspired zany, fur-collared "thespian"), by the cloudy jumble of zombie myth and fetal science which throng Columbus' mind...