Word: drakes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...plans to keep as many men as possible on this year's squad. From the starting field of 55 he has already chosen nine and will probably retain another nine after the final cut. At present he is concluding a tournament from which the semi-finalists, John Hulley, Thayer Drake, Phil Folsie, and Dick Beyer have been selected to fill out the regular squad...
...prolific was Bangs that the number of his pseudonyms put a strain on his wit. They included Shakespeare Jones, Gaston V. Drake, Periwinkle Podmore, Horace Dodd Gastit, A. Sufferan Mann. In politics he was defeated for Mayor of Yonkers, but became a very useful bird dog for the imperialism of Roosevelt I and General Leonard Wood in Cuba (on which he wrote a book) and in the Philippines. Had Wood been nominated in 1920, Bangs would probably have gone to the Court of St. James's. In the reconstruction of France he more or less worked himself to death...
...raised ground near the estuary of the Plym River is the promenade called the Hoe, where Sir Francis Drake was playing bowls when news came of the Spanish Armada's approach. Last week that episode was reproduced in ironic miniature; but last week the aftermath was a dreadful tragedy...
...sirens sounded. Lady Astor and her guests stepped outside and watched what she had to admit was "a magnificent sight": flares falling from an armada of Nazi planes, then incendiary bombs planting their fateful beacons, then murder in high explosives. Calm as a Drake, Nancy Astor took note of something which dawned on all Britain last week. The air raids had become part of the Battle of the Atlantic...
Just after 9 the next morning, Lady Astor, once so-called leader of the so-called "Cliveden Set," called up United Press and asked if she might send the U. S. a message. Her experience on the Hoe had given her an idea that the dilatory Drake was wrong. U. P. said she could say whatever she wished...