Word: em
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Vandenberg was willing to let the German airmen come to him ("We've been trying for months to make them come up; now we've got 'em where we want 'em"). The Luftwaffe came in surprising strength. Despite its losses earlier in the offensive, it was able last week, in an early-morning attack on Vandenberg's and Coningham's airfields, to mount its biggest day in the air since Dday. Over most of the Ninth's fields the enemy took a beating. But over some of the British dromes in Belgium...
...Crime Doctor, Doctor Gillespie, Fibber McGeo and Molly. People find these entertaining, just as they like familiar Tchaikowsky and spurn Shostakovich, but no further contribution to a stagnating film-art can come from such mechanically-whipped froth. To use the vernacular, when you've seen one, you've seen 'em...
...over the country, this speech brought Keating high praise, along with requests for jobs. Commented Advertising Age: "It's things like this that reaffirm our occasionally wavering faith that it's fun to be in the advertising business." Worldly-wise Variety headlined the talk "Just Let 'em Pay the Tab-Keating...
...drinking, hunger-striking Irish revolutionary, who fought under the late great Michael Collins in "The Trouble," headed the Free State Army when Collins died, commanded the Irish Civic Guard until Eamon de Valera ousted him in 1933, promptly organized the Fascist Blue Shirts in retaliation; in Dublin. "Give 'Em the Lead" O'Duffy, son of a North Ireland farmer, had a voice that could make a policeman jump a block away, the smile of a man who knew he had to keep his eyes open. As president of the National Athletic and Cycling Association, he led the Irish...
Naturalist. Near Camp McCoy, Wis., a Brooklyn G.I. returned to his company carrying a full-grown set of rattlesnake rattles, explained that he "got 'em off a big woim...