Word: ernest
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Pick, No Scat. In Broken Arrow, Okla. (pop. 2,074), another hero home from the wars had a welcome colored by Indian atmosphere, and flavored with country feasting. He was Lieut. Ernest Childers (himself three parts Indian and one part Irish), who, like Kelly, had earned the Congressional Medal of Honor in Italy. For him, too, there were parades, speeches, and a lunch in the basement of the Methodist Church. But Childers' homecoming was most memorable for a reminiscent evaluation of his fighting qualities given by his 55-year-old half brother, Walter Childers. Said Brother Walter: "He would...
...Ernest Taylor ("Ernie") Pyle, warm-worded war correspondent, learned that he had been given partial credit for improving U.S. mechanized equipment. From Africa, to the jeep's makers (Willys-Overland), Pyle had written: "The jeep is a divine instrument of wartime locomotion [but the present hand brake] is perfectly useless." Last week Willys-Overland wrote to tell him that they had substituted a good, new internal-expansion brake for the bad, old external-contraction type...
With this flourish, Admiral Ernest Joseph King this week wound up his first report of the war - a 50,000-word document comparable to George Marshall's report on the Army (TIME, Sept...
...definitely never apologized for one. As Secretary of the Ministry of Shipping, he fought the U-boat menace in World War I and was knighted. As Joint Undersecretary to the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland in 1921, he rode hard on the rebellious Irish. He laid an iron hand on Ernest Bevin's general strike of 1926, and broke it. He governed India's restive province of Bengal for five years, came to be known as the most-shot-at man in the world, and freed one of his would-be assassins so that the man could continue...
...likely to puzzle readers who pay $2.50 to share their experience, is Mr. DeVoto's belligerence. With a chip on his shoulder the size of a two-by-four, with many a dubious assertion insisted on with the finality of the village atheist, and with sideswipes at Ernest Hemingway, Sinclair Lewis, John Dos Passes, Robinson Jeffers and others whom he oddly lumps together, Mr. DeVoto seems less a critic than a Studs Lonigan of letters, daring anybody to come out and fight like...