Word: donee
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...battleships, only the Missouri is now in active service, 14 are now assigned to the Zipper Fleet. The big ships still possess some utility as antiaircraft support for carrier forces. But even the Navy's crustiest battleship admirals concede that the day of the battlewagon is all but done...
...election of Truman. George M. Harrison of the Brotherhood of Railway Clerks declared that all "but two or three" presidents of A.F.L. internationals would join.* This week, the C.I.O. executive board threw its full weight to the Democratic ticket. As an added fillip, the A.D.A., which had done its best to displace the President at Philadelphia, pledged him its support. Harry Truman had cause to be heartened. At week's end, tanned and refreshed, he returned to Washington, ready to head for Detroit and the beginning of the campaign...
...understand how it could have been that no one was there or that he started away which caused it-when it was done and no one there I walked some distance to the car and drove away as it meant that I could call you and say I love you, which I so wanted...
...Gift at the Gate. Jungle Man, Pretorius' autobiography (he,died in 1945), could have done with a dash of the Hemingway talent. It is competently written, but with a calm matter-of-factness that makes a commonplace of every act of fantastic nerve and daring. Pretorius spent years in unexplored territory and established precarious friendships with cannibals and tribes openly committed to the exclusion of whites. He had a good ear for their dialects, which he learned, and a nice inquiring eye for aboriginal customs. In one tribe he found what must have been the simplest form of courtship...
...whole business is very sleekly done and is fairly suspenseful and entertaining. But all the intelligence and talent are wasted in putting a high polish on emptiness. The show is a solid necklace of carefully matched cliches. Rosalind Russell is competent in her rangy, highly stagy role, but she skillfully avoids proving whether she can, or cannot, play Hedda...