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...southwest Pacific, where he had been successful beyond belief, the Jap still had a lot of unfinished business on his books. Until Douglas MacArthur and his Australian and Dutch allies were richer in the specie of war, they would have to be content with joggling the Jap's elbow and spilling ink over the accounts on the most profitable page of his ledger...
...steadily as a butcher's slicing machine, the War Production Board trimmed new layers of fat off the U.S. standard of living. Out for the duration went all the kitchen gadgets which modern housewives had substituted for grandma's elbow grease: electric toasters, waffle irons, mixers, dishwashers. Out went the nursery's tin soldiers and electric trains...
...Roosevelt town houses on East 65th Street are for sale, and Franklin Roosevelt is no lover of hotels. Homey, elbow-roomy Hyde Park remains his legal residence. Mrs. Roosevelt rented the Washington Square apartment for "a term of years." In My Day, she philosophized: "I feel I have now reached an age where I can reasonably expect to stay wherever I go for the rest of my life...
...miles away. These pastoral effects, however, are usually filtered out; what the pickups are after are such contact noises as climbing, tunneling, wire-snipping and other signs of sabotage and trespass. Result: as good a watch in fog, blackout, darkness and storm as could be maintained by guards standing elbow to elbow...
What the audience saw were the externals of the performance. Apple-cheeked Violinist Adolf Busch, acting as concertmaster, nodded his head, lifted his elbow occasionally as he fiddled, but used no baton. Behind this skin-deep sign of novelty lay a sinewy idea: Adolf Busch had chosen to build an orchestra that functioned, not like an orchestra, but like a string quartet...