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...doubt the defeated faction should have slipped quietly away. For, like people, governments wish that former friends, whom for one reason or another they have injured, would drop away tactfully. But the London Poles had always been stiff-necked. Perhaps it was political despair, perhaps it was the habit of authority, perhaps it was old-fashioned love of country, which new-fashioned love of class was subtly supplanting through Europe, but the defeated government refused to fold up quietly. It denied that the free elections promised soon by the Warsaw Government would be free in a country governed behind...
This desert-fighting phase first brought out in Wavell an urge to express himself Biblically to his officers, a habit he developed to a high degree in his later Middle East campaigns. For a warning against unexpected rainy seasons in desert climates, he drew on Elijah's message to Ahab in I Kings, 18:44 ("Prepare thy chariot and get thee down, that the rain stop thee not"). The danger of floods in Palestine he underlined with a quotation from Jeremiah 12:5 ("How wilt thou do in the swelling of the Jordan?"). The folly of expecting military assistance...
...Habit. In Mattoon, 111., Golfer John W. Preihs, who had made a hole-in-one in 925 and saved the lucky ball ever since, was forced by the current shortage to take it out and use it again, promptly made another hole...
...Manhattan Lawyer Alfred H. Holbrook seemed an incurable collector of paintings. He was, he says, "like a toper who took one swig at the fount of art appreciation and went on a 40-year binge." Between sprees, Collector Holbrook wanted to find out why the habit had such a hold on him. This year he enrolled as an art student at the University of Georgia in Athens, where his classmates were 61 coeds. Last week he still had no logical explanation of his craving for art. But grateful Student Holbrook had presented his entire $175,000 collection, acquired over four...
Collector Holbrook took a good, long look at the show and was seized with a new urge which promised to be even less curable than his old habit of collecting: he sat down and dashed off a painting...