Word: jerseyed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Logan Pearsall Smith is a New Jersey-born expatriate of the first diaspora (circa 1880). Smith does not like expatriates of the second dispersion. Least of all does he like their chief anti-Miltonians, Expatriates Ezra Pound and Thomas Stearns Eliot. They, he charges, are Delilahs in a cunning campaign to shear the literary locks of the Puritan poetic Samson. Once more Smith raises the now famous question: Why does Ezra Pound...
Thanks to his superiors' protests to Washington, Private Earl last week got cheering news: within another week, he was advised, he might collect five months' pay, return to the rolls of the New Jersey regiment...
Though the troops that poured in were sometimes ahead of schedule, all had quarters ready when they arrived. One outfit gave General Devers a rare laugh. The 112th Field Artillery (National Guard) arrived from New Jersey with twelve pianos, 36 polo ponies, its due complement of men and officers. Only items left behind were the regiment's guns. They arrived several days late...
Private Leland Earl joined the Washington National Guard two years ago. He wanted to know how the big guns worked. When his regiment (the 148th Field Artillery) was mobilized last fall, Private Earl was ordered to report in Seattle. But he was selling magazines in New Jersey, got his orders too late to join the regiment before it sailed for Hawaii. Because he was technically mobilized and liable to arrest, Private Earl prudently presented himself at Fort...
...Jersey regiment finally accepted him, but not for long. Army men recalled a law that forbade the transfer of National Guardsmen from one State to another. Private Earl was put under technical arrest. He stayed on at Fort Dix for five months without pay, picked up small change from kindly officers who hired him as their dog robber...