Word: jonathans
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...walked out, gaunt and shaken, to surrender Corregidor, Lieut. General Jonathan M. Wainwright did not feel like a hero. As a prisoner of Japan he did not feel like one, either. "Skinny" Wainwright, who could remember the bugle-bright traditions of the U.S. cavalry, learned a dingier drill-to remove his shoes when entering buildings, to bow to his captors. He was allowed no news. Lonely and aging, he could only wonder about how the war was going, and what the nation and the Army thought about him-if they ever did think about...
...list of men found "safe & well" was Lieut. General Jonathan Mayhew Wainwright, hero of Bataan and successor to MacArthur. He was found in a Manchuria prison camp near Mukden...
...work pasting up dummies. So far, says Cousins, everything "is purely exploratory. We are not trying to hide a new baby. If it comes along it will be plenty visible-as is generally the case." Passes have already been made at several major and minor leftwing journalists (including Jonathan Daniels, President Roosevelt's express secretary). Field said his first step was to try to buy Liberty magazine, grab its paper and circulation, and change it radically, but "that's all over. We found that Liberty* wasn't for sale...
Latin & Cock Feathers. Son of a Cornish doctor, grandson of famed Cornish Ichthyologist Jonathan Couch (History of the Fishes of the British Islands), Q received his first Latin at the age of seven ("I went home as one baptized into a cult"), in the Misses Harriet and Jemina Lutman's seminary, or "dame school." These "excellent ladies" also taught him Euclid and "globes," introduced him to Reading without Tears and Little Arthur's History of England. He learned by heart the questions & answers in the 48th edition of The Child's Guide to Knowledge, by a Lady...
Died. Colonel Jonathan Mayhew Wainwright, 80, Assistant Secretary of War under Harding, Republican Congressman from New York (1923-31), cousin to Jap-imprisoned Lieut. General Jonathan ("Skinny") Wainwright; after long illness; in Rye, N.Y. A prohibitionist, he retired from Congress rather than vote wet to please his cocktailing constituents in suburban Westchester County...