Word: latters
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Also on exhibition is Rudyard Kipling's "Recessional" on the strength of which T. S. Eliot calls Kipling "a great hymn writer." Appearing with the latter poem is Alan Seeger's '10, "I Have a Rendezvous With Death", the most during the World War while serving with the French Foreign Legion...
...only prerequisite for joining the club is a small speaking knowledge of German. Before members vote the acceptance of a Fuechs the latter has to demonstrate his teutonic talent in a short speech or song. The Club offers an excellent opportunity for learning painlessly to speak the language...
...have but to step into this country. If you cherish any such idea, we will not fail to resist you with all the might we can muster." But in the next breath he was threatening that "hidden discontent may burst forth into welcome for the Japanese should the latter land in India." He bluntly disapproved of an unofficial suggestion that the U.S., China and Britain were prepared to underwrite India's post-war self-government. As a last resort, he revealed in his newspaper Harijan, a fast-to-the-death might be his "greatest and most effective weapon...
...emergencies like this." Attendant (unmoved): "Read that last paragraph inside your book." Taxicabbing to his office, Administrator Henderson seized a copy of his 70-page book of regulations, heavily underscored the clause about such emergencies as his, sent the book, with his autograph, to the station attendant. Commented the latter, still unmoved: "I ain't selling any gas to anybody in a can. It goes in their tank, that...
Equipment is kept at the Maintenance Department and consists of an old Boston pumper, another pumper, and two demolition wagons. The latter carry equipment for combatting fire, incendiary bombs, and other similar emergencies...