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...late Colonel Edmund W. Starling (of the Kentucky colonels) might have spent a humdrum life in the South, stalking train robbers, pulling bums out of freight cars and convoying precious cargoes for the railway express company which he served as a detective. But his employers suggested cutting his pay to meet competition from parcel post. So young Starling flitted to the U.S. Secret Service...
...Southern France and elsewhere in the ETO, was discharged in November 1945. The experience as a padre he valued and would not have missed, but he was "darned glad to get back" to the tranquillity of his parish and to his own job. Ex-Chaplain May admitted that the humdrum routine of parochial life took some getting used to. In a parish a high percentage of problems falls into a groove, whereas in the Navy the kinds of problems are legion...
...English, he says, are not dull, plodding, humdrum, hardworking. They are constitutionally indolent, and being at peace with nature find it hard to understand other people, like the Germans, who are not. So the English are always caught unprepared and forced to make up for lost time by their resourcefulness, inventiveness, self-reliance. Far from being plodders, they are creative, imaginative, the most brilliant modern nation "with the single possible exception of the French...
...than his neatly furnished cubicle at the Gregory Street rooming house. But even at a bar, an ex-sergeant of paratroopers who has won a Silver Star, a Purple Heart, a shell fragment in his right leg and a bayonet scar on his arm, gets bored-especially after a humdrum day on the job at a New Jersey rubber plant. Mike ordered still another drink...
...Miss Graham-Bower went out from England to India "to putter about with a few cameras and do a bit of medical work, maybe write a book." She disappeared into the Assam hills to study the Nagas. These lithe-limbed warriors live in fortified hilltop villages, lead a somewhat humdrum existence punctuated by occasional raids to cut off their neighbors' heads, which they carry about in wicker baskets...