Word: goings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...summer of 1944, on a shuttle mission to Russia, Captain Richard E. Willsie's P-38 was so badly shot up that he was forced to land in a Rumanian pasture. Lieut. Richard T. Andrews, seeing Willsie go in, landed his P-38 in the same field, and after the damaged fighter had been set on fire took off again . . . with Willsie sitting on his lap. They made a safe landing in Russia...
...pocket of her thickest coat to parade London's streets "till 1949 is well and truly born." Then, she will "first-foot" it back home, bearing the bread, coal and salt that are symbolic of warmth and prosperity for the coming year. Being a brunette, she will then go on to first-foot it for other Lancastrians who have the misfortune to be blonde (an unlucky omen for anyone who has to first-foot for a household). This means that each time she arrives at a home bearing her good omens there will be a glass of wine...
...presence of the artist makes a relevant difference? For in applauding his performance we are applauding the whole man there before us-the man with his entire past peering through his present. . . I admit that I keep away from performances by [Nazi] collaborators; I don't want to go . . . [but] the point is that while my feelings point one way, my reason points another...
...life if he tells where a Loyalist leader is hiding. In the cemetery, he answers contemptuously-naming the most unlikely place he can think of. That is just where the fascists find their man. Intimacy is the story of a frigid wife who leaves her dull, impotent husband to go away with a lover, changes her mind in a burst of muddled pity for her husband and returns to a loveless marriage...
...Erin Go Bragh. In Cheltenham, England, the court awarded Dorothy Dix $630, agreed that her hairdresser was negligent when he dyed her hair green...