Word: furlough
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...grey, troubled streets of Paris began to show patches of color, and U.S. soldiers on furlough caught the first faint scents of spring. Here & there window boxes showed bright yellow daffodils, pink hyacinths, deep-toned violets. The war news was good, and shops blossomed with a gaiety of frothy spring hats and gaudy costume jewelry...
Married. Private Red Skelton, 31, limber-legged, extroverted radio and cinema comic; and Georgia Maureen Davis, 23, ex-photographer's model; he for the second time, she for the first; in Beverly Hills. Second item on the bridegroom's furlough schedule: having his tonsils...
Authors and star performers of the Midwest's little assault on ballet's classic tradition: raven-haired, energetic Ruth Page, high priestess of the dance in Chicago; and Technical Sergeant Bentley Stone, 34, a lanky South Dakotan who got a seven-day furlough from his Air Forces base in Kansas to dance "Johnnie." The Page-Stone team has authored two other U.S. ballets: Hear Ye! Hear Ye! (a nightclub murder) and Gold Standard (a sugar-daddy romance...
Last week, dark-haired, amiable T/4 O'Neill (28) appeared at the State Capitol in Columbus. On furlough for the duration of the Legislature, he was still in uniform, still wearing his Good Conduct Medal, two bronze battle stars. Starting his fourth term (he was first elected at 22, was Republican whip last session), he went to the Speaker's rostrum, made a speech about what a great job U.S. soldiers were doing overseas. His colleagues rose and cheered...
...Subtle Anxiety. For some, the waiting is anxious and filled, perhaps, with a few misgivings. After all, how can one remember everything about a man who has been gone so long? In Manhattan a young wife prepared to welcome her husband home on furlough. The apartment was all shipshape, with flowers on the mantel. The dinner would be perfect, down to the dry martinis. But the first thing the husband said was: "Darling, don't you remember I never drink martinis...