Word: ernest
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Fair to Foul. In Washington, Navy Secretary James Vincent Forrestal, Fleet Admiral Ernest J. King and other Navymen wondered about the effect on the U.S. public of this stirring performance and great publicity show. An epoch was ended. As any sailor knows, every fair wind sooner or later blows foul. In the aftermath of every major war which the U.S. has waged in the past 80 years, public sympathy has veered; in the fog of na tional policy, overtaken by its own rust, the Navy has all but foundered...
...Knew As Much . . ." In 1929, when the Laborite Daily Herald was reorganized, Ernest Bevin picked Francis Williams for his City (i.e., financial) Editor. Says Williams: "I have always felt that a specialist journalist should know as much as, say, the bankers and stockbrokers. . . or whatever department of journalism he is working in. . . . I put myself in a position in which I knew as much as they did, if not a bit more...
Between times he wrote socialist tomes (War By Revolution). This year he published an Upton Sinclairish first novel, No Man Is An Island, whose title came from the same John Donne sermon as Ernest Hemingway's For Whom the Bell Tolls. He wants to write more novels, but "if you're asked by a Prime Minister and a friend to take on a job, the novels can wait...
...WILLIAM ERNEST HENLEY - Jerome Hamilton Buckley-Princeton University Press...
...fall of 1874, a young man named William Ernest Henley, son of a Gloucester bookseller, appeared before Lister and placed his life in the experimenter's hands. At 25, Henley was dying of tuberculosis. The disease had settled in his lower legs, which were short and withered, although his torso and thighs were those of a giant. One foot had already been amputated; London surgeons wanted to amputate the other...