Word: hadn
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Shyly they told their story. They were both on convalescent leave, hitchhiking across the country to visit their parents in San Diego, Calif. They had such short leave they hadn't waited for the British consul to arrange transportation. USOers, fascinated, pressed them for details...
...Broadway. Once she screeched, in answer to a question from the prosecuting attorney: "I never file my nails in the presence of others. You're just trying to ruin my character." After all, the pair of them were fighting for their lives-even if their lives hadn't been so much...
...stubby trumpet player who is right in his element in front of a small band, and semi-legendary Peewee Russell, who painfully extorted a half-hour's worth of intoxicated notes from his ram-shackle clarinet, after playing most of the afternoon at the Ken's rival session. Peewee hadn't been too exciting at the Ken, I understand--something about the other men not playing in the right key. But with his colleague Kaminsky to kid him along he gave of his knocked-out best...
...General George C. Marshall and Harry Hopkins flew home from their consultations with British war leaders. It had been nice of the two visitors to bring gifts to Mrs. Winston Churchill and Sir Alan Brooke, the British Chief of the Imperial General Staff. But really, old boy, what gifts! Hadn't those American chaps heard that there is coal at Newcastle? The gifts: a crate of Brussels sprouts; a crate of cabbages...
...gland is only a gland") might well have been cited, too. Under the opinions about "men of mark" Mencken fails to mention Mark Twain's famous "Just that one omission alone[Jane Austen's books] would make a fairly good library out of a library that hadn't a book in it." Lincoln's "I laugh because I must not cry-that's all, that's all" is overlooked; so are such famed phrases as "Damned clever, these Chinese" and "Elementary, my dear Watson"; so are such slogans as "Next to myself I like...