Word: hadn
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Unfortunately for the logic of his position, Mr. White cannot explain away certain facts. One of his informants reports, "After (the fall of France) came the spoils of war--butter and bacon from Denmark, wines, perfumes and silk underwear from Paris--things that Germany hadn't known for years. Everybody thought the war was fine." The Germans began to disapprove of the war only when it appeared they were going to lose...
...wounds [TIME, June 16]. The Army doctor mentioned in this article asked no such question. Blood had not gushed from Tojo's wound. Neither did that doctor commend the gentlemen of the press for moving Tojo, nor did he make such an erroneous statement as, "If that blood hadn't drained out, it would have filled his lungs and drowned him." Nothing could have been further from the truth if it had happened. . . . I know these things to be facts. I was that doctor. JAMES B. JOHNSON JR., M.D. Newark, Ohio...
About an hour before sailing time, Lord Inverchapel, Britain's Ambassador to the U.S., buttonholed a Queen Elizabeth steward. Hadn't his case of butter come aboard yet? His Excellency dashed back onto the dock, scurried three blocks to a grocery, came back lugging ten pounds of butter and eight of bacon-for friends at home, he explained...
...expanded into the New York market merely by handing a slice of Pepperidge bread to the head of a Manhattan grocery store. The manager said he hadn't tasted any bread like it since he was a boy. Within a short time he was ordering 1,200 loaves a week...
...went backstage to praise her, said: "Of course, I cannot congratulate you on your first performance of Thaïs. You have sung it, I suppose, many times." Said Edis: "You asked me one day if I had ever sung Thaïs and I said yes. Well, I hadn't-except in my dreams...