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Autocrat Holmes presided over a family (he had two boys, one girl) who chattered like "a nest of wrens" (whoever was wittiest at table was awarded an extra spoon ful of marmalade). "Don't take it so hard, Wendell," said Uncle John Holmes when the doctor wrote whimsical articles about his son in the Atlantic Monthly. "You will get used to your father. I did, long...
...Ronson cigaret lighter; one Waltham wrist watch; one U.S.-made nail clipper; a colored picture of a tiger (possibly picked up during the Malayan campaign); a helmet with hollow pads in which was secreted a girl's photograph; a mosquito headnet ful of rice. . . . One other item lying near by turned out to be a white silk shirt, made in Sydney. Don't ask me what a Nip would be doing with a white silk shirt...
Comebacks. Lord Beaverbrook's Daily Express immediately took up the challenge and began knocking down Cummings' story with testimonial letters from the places involved. Wrote Mayor Godsell of Worcester: "The behavior of the American troops is excellent. ... It is disgrace ful that such a statement should be made. . . . Misconduct in Worcester is negligible." Mayor Farrow, of Peterborough: "I am infuriated by this scurrilous statement. . . . The police have practically no trouble...
Standing beneath the stern stone faces of Washington, Jefferson, Lincoln and Theodore Roosevelt looming from South Dakota's Mt. Rushmore, Wendell Willkie last week asked his fellow U.S. citizens some pregnant questions: "Are you engaged in delusive and wish ful thinking that the war will end shortly, when we have not yet even entered Eu rope and have reconquered only one of the multitude of islands in the South Pacific? "Are you one of those who understands the destructive forces of inflation, yet joins pressure groups whose demands, if met, mean inflation inevitably? "Are you one of those...
Anyone passing Austin Hall about 1650 last Wednesday afternoon would have seen rather a strange sight. There were mutterings, incantations, and hope ful glances at the sky, but alas! No rain. Hopes were rudely shattered when the inevitable command "Fall in" was given. Oh well, marching is fun so some people...