Word: furloughing
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...Broadway, then landed the ingenue lead in the London production of She Loves Me Not. Soon she caught the eye of Producer George Abbott, who stuck her in Three Men on a Horse and five other comedies before Hollywood whistled with a fancy five-year contract. Currently on furlough, she is acting the lead in Elmer Rice's new play, Flight to the West, which opened on Broadway this week...
...with paradox. Winston Churchill, who writes some of the finest historical prose of his time, never went to college. The future Chancellor of the Exchequer had a hard time with simple arithmetic. Son of an antimilitarist, Winston rushed enthusiastically into the Army. As a war correspondent on almost perpetual furlough from his regiment, he was in the thick of fierce fighting on three continents...
...Boyd never got a reply. Months went by. Mr. Boyd, still convinced he had a good idea, wrote to Ambassador Joseph Kennedy, who had arrived from London on a furlough, again outlined his plan. It is also customary for ambassadors to answer their mail. But again there was no reply. Once more Mr. Boyd tried. This time he wrote to Stephen Early, White House secretary, who gets plenty of mail, distributes it to various departments and secretaries. But Mr. Early seemed to have joined a conspiracy of silence...
...years ago, hatchet-faced Private Lew Jenkins of Sweetwater, Tex. took a furlough from his job of shoeing horses at the U. S. Army's Fort Bliss. He went to Dallas to see the sights. After a few days he was broke, went to a matchmaker to ask for a fight so that he would have a place to flop at night. Back at his post, Private Jenkins was dissatisfied. The $15 he got for that one fight in Dallas was about two weeks' pay in the Army. A few weeks later, Private Jenkins bought himself...
Last week a new movement was afoot: special "paternity furloughs" for soldiers. President Fernand Boverat of the French League Against Depopulation warned recently that unless more furloughs are given, French children born in 1940 may number only some 450,000. Le Populaire asked: "Will the duration of this furlough be the same for all? A captain gets two or three rations, a colonel gets more. Will officers have a longer leave? If a soldier can accomplish his work in four days, will it be considered that his colonel must expend more effort...