Word: ear
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...yearn for so much . . . for one hour without the din of battle, for one stretch of summer landscape that doesn't smell of conflagration and death, for one walk through a street of peace with children's laughter and clinking of glasses reaching your ear from a jolly window. Yet all this becomes threadbare and infinitesimal compared with the yearning for the great water, for water for drinking, for bathing, for nonsensical wallowing...
...marry Swingmaster Benny Goodman when she gets her divorce from George Duckworth, a Briton she left in Britain to sail home in the West Point. ≤≤Satin-haired Singer Harry Richman, freshly divorced by wealthy ex-Follies Beauty Hazel Forbes, had his picture taken being nuzzled in the ear by Showgirl Eileen Shirley...
...first assistants last week Wild Bill Donovan chose moose-tall Playwright Robert Emmet Sherwood (who also has the President's ear, sometimes works on speeches for the White House) and FORTUNE'S Surveyor Elmo Burns Roper Jr. (see p. 15). Bob Sherwood will have charge of morale warfare-i.e., such campaigns as Britain's "V for Victory" drive in Nazi-occupied territory. Elmo Roper will take care of all kinds of background research...
...Hague's power lies in control of New Jersey judges. The Governor showed his hand, a week after he took office, by appointing Republican Frederic R. Colie to the Supreme Bench. Hague's reaction: an hour of abuse and threats screamed into the Governor's ear by telephone from the Boss's winter den on Biscayne...
...Almost twice as many draftees were rejected for ear troubles this year...