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...Japanese staff officers' work has been of a high order." Outside. In battle dress a Japanese soldier looks like a badly wrapped brown paper package. His legs are too short, his pants are baggy, his leggings droop, his tunic is loose, his kit askew. He wears muddy leather shoes. He may have on a sweater or messy fatigue clothes...
...rumpled, bulky, droop-mustached man stood beside the white dazzle of the Unknown Soldier's marble tomb in Arlington Cemetery. He too had been a soldier-Sergeant Alvin C. York, the Tennessee mountaineer who, 23 years ago, singlehanded, disabled a German machine-gun battery and with seven privates killed or captured 152 of its defenders. He spoke: "Liberty is not merely something the veterans inherited. Liberty is something they fought to keep...
Married. Emer de Valera, second daugher of Eire's Prime Minister Eamon de Valera, language student at the National University, Dublin; and Brian 0 Cuiv, on of the late bean-tall, droop-mustached Sean O Cuiv, director of Eire's Information Bureau; in Dublin. Taoiseach de Valera gave the bride away...
...theme of Flotsam is one of the most massive, intimate and terrible derangements of human living within human memory. Remarque, able as he is, is not fully equal to it; perhaps no human talent could be. Besides, Flotsam has some lyric flights that droop in midair; some touches of sentimental sententiousness; some comedy too national quite to cross a border; one or two bits almost of cheapness. But Remarque, like Hemingway, has the rare ability to produce writing which is both a genuine work of art and popular; and to embody a generation. For that reason Flotsam is a deeply...
...climax of a life devoted to battling Demon Rum, he introduced the law that became the 18th Amendment, helped the tall, droop-mustached Minnesota zealot, Andrew J. Volstead, write the Prohibition enforcement law. But as saloons became speakeasies and gangsters turned to bootleggers, Volstead got all the knocks. Almost nobody had it in for genial, kindly Morris Sheppard. He was no fanatic, and everyone knew it. He simply thought liquor was poison. Texas went right on drinking and re-electing Morris Sheppard...