Word: fashioner
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...roads, whirled through a dizzying skirmish, shellacked the Jap. Some of them took to the trees, were shot down by U.S. soldiers. From the fringe of the gulf black columns of smoke rose. The U.S. Army had burned its gasoline dumps. It fell back in orderly fashion through villages where the Filipino civilians cheered and showed the "V" with their fingers. The Jap threw an armored spearhead east toward the islands' summer capital at Baguio. U.S. forces withdrew to save damage to the Philippines' most beautiful city...
...State Department trembled last week for fear that the still great fleet of Vichyfrance would be handed over to the Axis. And all its fears were occasioned because a handful of Frenchmen who despise Vichy and all its works had landed in very Gallic fashion on the little American islands, St. Pierre & Miquelon...
DOUBLE OR QUITS-A. A. Fair-< Morrow ($2). Accidental poisoning of a California doctor looks queer to pint-sized Donald Lam, who clears it up in his own rough, ready and staccato fashion. The plot is more intricate than in earlier Lam tales; the solving just as good or better...
...novelist, he must be credited with one novelty: he endows his heroine with boyish rather than feminine charms. That was the fashion in early post-war novels, but faded during the Long Armistice. Author Carmer, who uses not one but two boy-bodied women, may be starting a new phase in the cycle of charm...
...hope that the students at Harvard University will enroll themselves in groups of 50 to 80 and have a spokesman call the American Red Cross Blood Donor Service, 690 Boylston Street, Boston, for an appointment for his group to be bled. In this fashion you can be of immediate assistance to your country. Elliott C. Cutler '09, Mosely Professor of Surgery