Word: errand
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Gertrude Lawrence, sparkling British comedienne (Lady in the Dark), arrived in Manhattan from a six-months' battle tour of England, France and Belgium, admitted that she had suffered from "estomac de Normandie . . . a polite name for dysentery." She began rehearsing a new comedy-drama, Errand for Bernice, but said that she "may not be able to stick it" because she is too far from the war. Said she: "I keep feeling I ought to be doing something. New York is just incredible. It's as though peace were already declared. . . . I've never seen so much money...
...Andrew Mitscher leads more big flattops and escorting warships than any other man in history. In the midst of one great air battle over the Philippines, Mitscher ordered one baby carrier and a couple of destroyer escorts to detach themselves from his huge armada and go off on an errand. The captain of the baby radioed to Mitscher: "Am proceeding in accordance with your orders. You are now on your...
Monkey, whose name was not clearly pronounced even by lover-of-lore Sabu, turned in very neat job of errand running and needle-threading at the proper moments, while "King Cobra's" slenderizing away matched that of the "High-Priestess" herself, although it is difficult to say which inspired which...
...Florida, courtly Claude Pepper, who has industriously worked his way up from New Deal errand boy to New Deal advance man, fought four rivals for his seat in the U.S. Senate. Against Pepper the opposition threw all the New Deal symbols which Southerners like least: bureaucracy, OPA bungling, labor and Negro "coddling." ("Drastically below-the-belt mud-slinging!" cried Pepper...
Featherless Errand. For 18 hours through a howling Italian blizzard a carrier pigeon labored to deliver this message from a snowbound British division to Army headquarters: "Nothing to report...