Word: incidentally
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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President Roosevelt got his incident last week-the incident he has been expecting ever since he stretched the Hemisphere patrol to Iceland. This week he got the incident he has been waiting for since he stretched the shipment of U.S. war materials to the Red Sea.
The public took the Greer incident (see col. 3) fatalistically. Something like this had long been expected, and it might have passed as a one-day sensation, as easily forgotten as the sinking of the Robin Moor. Said Isolationist Senator Bob Reynolds: "It was a very simple incident. ... It seems...
What the President would have said Monday the world may never know, for on Sunday his mother died and the talk was postponed until Thursday. As of last week this much seemed certain: he was disappointed in the fatalistic attitude of the country. But he had no intention of letting...
"For five long years Japanese military factions, seeking to emulate the style of Hitler and Mussolini . . . have been wandering about that vast land [China] in futile excursions, carrying with them carnage, ruin and corruption, and calling it 'the Chinese incident.' Now, they stretch a grasping hand into the...
From the underwear industry last week came a kittenish echo of Lieut. General Ben Lear's Memphis Incident. Announced by Blue Swan Mills (manufacturers of Minnikins, Frillikins, Smoothikins, many anotherkins) was the Panty-of-the-Month for December. It will be made of olive-drab cotton and rayon, archly...