Word: lieut
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Coronado, Calif., Police Lieut. Frank Greene haled his wife into court for two parking violations, shelled out $35 bail because she had forgotten her purse...
Master Sergeant Baldassare never took his eyes from the multi-clad general. "I saw Japanese officers riding along the route," he said. "There is one in this place right now that I can recognize who was riding in an official car-Lieut. General Homma. I asked a Japanese guard, 'Who is that man?' He said: 'That is General Homma...
...home. It was as simple as that. Even occupation troops in Germany and Japan, who should have known better, joined the chorus. In Frankfurt 2,000 G.I.s crowded into the Army headquarters compound and G.I. orators shinnied up a lamppost to harangue them. They yelled for soldierly Lieut. General Joseph T. McNarney to come out and face them if he was not too "scared." McNarney was in Berlin at a meeting of the Four-Power Control Council. The G.I.s showed what they thought of his absence by booing and hissing his name. McNarney, well aware of the Army...
Last week, in the opinion of tidy, martinettish Lieut. General Robert Charlwood Richardson Jr., chief of Army forces in the mid-Pacific, Stars and Stripes went too far. It headlined a story of the Manila riots: "Patterson [Secretary of War] Branded Number One Enemy by Jeering Mob." "Nellie" Richardson forthwith forbade the editors "to refer in your newspaper discourteously to the President of the U.S., the Secretary of War, the Chief of Staff of the Army or to others in authority in the Army...
...Times's letters column Lieut. Colonel P. Youngman Carter of d'Arcy House, Tolleshunt d'Arcy, near Maldon, Essex, announced a horrifying discovery (in an old wardrobe): a bowler hat whose brim turned down. Wrote he: "The hat possesses a classic (or dome-of-St. Paul's) crown, five inches high but unwaisted, but the brim, which is a full two and a half inches wide, is perfectly flat save for an inverted gutter at the extreme edge.... I am wondering if it is an example of individual taste...