Word: dunkirks
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Gracie frankly admits that she is out to restake herself. Always openhanded, since Dunkirk she had contributed most of her time and talent to British War Relief. Radio is a way to "get some bills paid." Observes Gracie of her potent earning powers: "I'm 42 [she is 44] and that's nearly middleaged, but I hate to think of it and I don't believe it. My hair is blonde but I give it a bit of fixing-I do. I have teeth that were made by some mechanic and I wear glasses, and my legs...
...flesh off him. Mounted on a white charger, Gort was a heroic figure as Commander in Chief of the British Army on the disastrous field of France. He shone as a systematic organizer rather than as a brilliant tactician. When he returned to England from the shambles of Dunkirk he was given the job of organizing England for the defense of her soil from the invasion that appeared about to engulf...
...Harvard Radio Workshop will begin its 1942-43 program with a fantasy on the evacuation of Dunkirk by Milton Van Dyke '44, Workshop member. The play, "Take My Drum to England," will be the first of a series of indefinite length to be given every Wednesday at 9 o'clock on the Crimson Network. It will be given on November 4, a week from this Wednesday...
...shock of Dunkirk, the draft of 1940, the muddled rush to house the new army for its first winter, the first flow of the young men from their homes, schools, farms, jobs, into a peace time army whose reason for being was far from plain to many of its recruits?of all these things, and more, the army was born. There were the months when OHIO, chalked on latrine walls, meant "over the hill in October," and many of the young men cursed George Marshall, the President, the Congress which (by a House vote of 203-to-202) extended their...
Heroine and Marling daughter, Lettice Watson, is the widow of a naval officer killed at Dunkirk. Lettice lives in the Marling stables, which are fitted up with electricity, a drawing room, nurseries. She is courted by three youths: a poet, covered with long hair and conceit; an R.A.F. officer; an Army captain. This wooing is all the plot there...