Word: inheritence
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...suggest that you look to the family discipline, since the Army or the factories sooner or later inherit the children of the nation and have to cope with the type of discipline or lack of discipline that results from their home and school life." Gadgets & Vitamins. "We have had great stadiums, a vast continent with lots of elbow room, and schools with acres of playgrounds. . . . We have advertised vitamins and health pills and laborsaving gadgets and all sorts of substitutes for good, clean, arduous, energetic, muscle-building and character-building human endeavor...
Something for the Boys tells of three uninhibited cousins (Ethel Merman, Paula Laurence, Allen Jenkins) who inherit a Texas ranch next door to Kelly Field and set up a boardinghouse for soldiers' wives. In their spare time they also make defense gadgets out of carborundum. The hostelry turns into a scandal, and Actress Merman, by getting some carborundum in her teeth, turns into a radio receiving set. After that nothing even tries to make sense...
Seven Days Leave (RKO-Radio). In this musical lalapalooza, it is Private View tor Mature's business to woo and wed Lucille Ball during his brief army leave, in order to fulfill a codicil in eccentric Grandfather's will and inherit $100,000. The various soldierly and legal comics who help him are so neolithic that Mr. Mature at his best seems no worse than a particularly acute touch of Hodgkin's disease. Lucille Ball looks patient, tired, a little frightened. As her young sister, 17-year-old Newcomer Marcy McGuire makes a charming jitterbug for those...
...only is this a huge chunk of territory, but it also represents as tangled a post-war problem as any that Army and Navy are likely to inherit. For the interests of speed, most of these properties have been acquired either by outright condemnation or with very sketchy discussions of real values. Hence suits for fair return are apt to choke the courts for years. One frantic real-estater's estimate last week: a post-war lawyer's field day of 30 years or more...
Possibly these were omens that the new shrine might soon, in 1942, have no more power to stop warring men than had the words of Him who, some 1,900 years ago, had gone up from the multitude and proclaimed: "Blessed are the meek; for they shall inherit the earth...