Word: exits
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Rommel was not much better off than the Italians this week. British southern units cutting northwest from the desert oases apparently blocked his exit to Tripolitania. A force of Coldstream Guards, Royal Armoured Corps and South African armored cars moved southward from Bengasi to close the pincer...
Members of the staff will be on hand just outside the exit to confer the coveted prize upon the winner, and, if need be, to assist him back to his room after the battle. Less fortunate classmates will be compensated with free issues and an opportunity to sign up for Harvard's official news agency, which carries news from only the most unimpeachable sources...
Professor George Lyman Kittredge's last exit was unstagy. He died peacefully in bed in his Cape Cod summer home at Barnstable, at 81. But Harvard men will remember him for his studied, perfectly timed classroom entrances and exits, his imperious walking stick, his haughty, traffic-stopping marches across Harvard Square, his pearl-grey suits and wing collars, his snowy beard (which he kept so, according to legend, by dippings in laundry bluing). One day (also according to legend) he presented himself, magnificently dressed and bearded, at a Beacon Hill mansion for tea. The girl who opened the door...
...should and might be. But last week, with Crete added to the somber list of defeats, a tide of opinion arose in Britain to the effect that one more major defeat-such as the loss of the Suez Canal-would call for a radical change, if not the exit of the Churchill Government. Few doubted that Prime Minister Churchill, due to face Parliament this week with regard to Crete, would encounter the first heavy criticism of his Prime Ministry...
...with the courage of a truly great actress. The story is not half so deep as this might suggest, but Miss Skinner does manage to add something more substantial than is apparent in the script, and builds it up to an impressive tribute to the theatre in her final exit off the stage and into the aisles...