Word: lieu
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...terms: a 2½?an-hour increase (added to the 16? boost previously offered) in lieu of changes in working rules for one year (see Labor...
Smacko! In Chicago, Walter Mack was fined $2 apiece for the five kisses he gave his landlady in lieu of rent...
...ages. Joe resigned from the Navy in August 1941, joined Major General Claire Chennault's Flying Tigers staff as a civilian. Captured by the Japanese at Hong Kong, he posed as a working newsman, got himself repatriated on the Gripsholm. Then he rejoined Chennault as an Air Forces lieu tenant, was made a captain before the war's end. Brother Stewart, turned down by the U.S. Army because of high blood pressure, enlisted in the British Army, fought with the 16th Rifles in Africa and Italy as a machine-gun platoon commander. After the British gave...
...party were her seven-year-old daughter Edda (named for Edda Musso lini Ciano), a nursemaid, a German lieu tenant colonel and his orderly. To officers of the U.S. 19th Infantry Division, said a New York Times dispatch, the lieutenant colonel presented an order from an un named SHAEF major general, requesting that Frau Goring be given all assistance...
...from swooning sensuality (Nude Reclining, an oil by Moise Kisling) to attenuated, nihilistic preciosity (Boîte-en-Valise, an "object" by Marcel Duchamp). Between these bypaths lay a two-lane highway of abstraction and surrealism. Outstanding was 44-year-old French Surrealist Yves Tanguy's Un Lieu Oblique (An Oblique Place), a meticulous composition suggesting a segment of interstellar space strewn with broken propeller parts, spilt putty, the detached, heraldic bowsprits of unicorns...