Word: leste
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Today Switzerland is just one big factory working day and night for the Germans." (Until France fell the Swiss worked almost exclusively for the Allies, now have to sell to German markets lest the Nazis withhold vital coal supplies. Even so, Switzerland still trades with the U.S., has 14 Swiss ships plying the Atlantic...
...Simone Simon). When she is awake, her subcutaneous felinity makes real cats arch & spit; when she is asleep, cats pad across her brain. She believes legends to the effect that her medieval Serbian ancestors were half-cats, and that she cannot let husband Oliver Reed (Kent Smith) kiss her lest she sprout claws and rip him apart. Psychiatrist Dr. Judd (Tom Conway) delivers sermons on over-imagination. The tactless husband discusses Simone with Alice-at-the-office (Jane Randolph), gradually succumbs to her sympathy. After Alice is ambushed three times by Simone a la cat, husband decides to put Simone...
...Lest the college further strain its tradition, Haverford-with its Quaker neighbors, Swarthmore and Bryn Mawr-last week proposed another sort of contribution to the world outside. Before Director of Foreign Relief and Rehabilitation Herbert Lehman they placed a joint proposal chat they train a staff to help in the U.S. administration and relief of occupied countries...
...Guinea, remote, mysterious General MacArthur managed to retain complete privacy where even Australian and U.S. nurses had to glance aside lest they blush at the spectacle of grimy soldiers bathing in the nude under roadside showers. One U.S. soldier, seeing the General one morning before breakfast, ran back to his comrades, exclaimed: "He was under the trees in a pink silk dressing gown with a black dragon on the back...
Even when it came time to go the reporters were told merely to report to a London address, were whisked on from there to embarkation points. LIFE'S Lincoln Barnett loaded his duffel into a taxi, told the driver to "Head on down Piccadilly," lest even his friends hear the address of the rendezvous. The New York Herald Tribune's William W. White shoved off without explanation, leaving a large, tweedy wardrobe in the apartment of bewildered friends. Chicago Daily Newsman William Stoneman, just returned to London from a long vacation, wired his boss abruptly: "Taking long vacation...