Word: forsworn
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...captain in World War I, Soldier Murphy is due to be paid as much as General Pershing. His Court salary is $20,000 a year, and will continue while he remains at Fort Benning. He has, however, forsworn the added pay of a lieutenant colonel. While in the Army Lieut. Colonel Justice Murphy will probably not be burdened by the routine and the chores of men who are not merely spending summer vacations in the Army—he can always return to the bench. (In his two years as a Justice, Soldier Murphy has handed down only 42 opinions.) However...
...Dorothy Christie parlayed a $25 secondhand evening wrap into a $22,500 fighter plane is one of the breeziest inspirations of World War II. The wrap, which, along with other finery and furbelows, Mrs. Christie had forsworn for the war's duration, was sold to an American friend last October. The $25 she got went to print cards that said: "Is your name Dorothy? If so, rally around and help buy a Spitfire for Britain."* The cards, in turn, went to every Dorothy in the Dominion that she and her friends could think...