Word: kit
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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When Housepainter Adolf Hitler was a Gefreiter (lance corporal) in the German army during the War, Carpenter Ignatz Westenkirchner was a private in his squad. Many an afternoon Carpenter Ignatz cleaned his mess kit and read and reread his shirt while Housepainter Adolf talked of the things he was going to do later...
...Gather in Death Comes for the Archbishop. Nearly a century ago Father John B. Lamy (Father Jean Marie Latour in the book) was sent to take the district from Mexican ecclesiastical control, build it as an independent vicariate Apostolic. A gentle, ascetic priest in buckskins, he made friends with Kit Carson, brought the church to many who had long been unchurched, became Santa Fe's archbishop in 1875, built Santa Fe's cathedral, died...
...what sort of settlement would be "honorable." Jubilant, Mr. Gandhi babbled, "If the Viceroy refuses this advance he will be insulting himself!" When the Mahatma telegraphed a request for audience with Viscount Willingdon it was promptly refused, whereat he telegraphed a second request, exclaiming "I have packed my kit and am ready to go back to jail, but if the Viceroy will meet me face to face I can show him that the Conference attitude is calculated to produce an honorable settlement...
While reading your June 12 issue of the TIME I was amazed to find, under your "Toilet Kit Tempest" article, a reference to the Civilian Conservation Corps members as "forestry workers on the dole...
...toilet kit for the "Tree Army" compared with the 32? kit issued to the Regulars is nothing...