Word: lockette
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...some have even gone by munitions boat)-but whenever possible the government tries to grant our request for plane priority. Flying time is remarkably fast in these wartime days. Duncan Norton-Taylor left Australia Tuesday morning, crossed the international date line, reached San Francisco early Thursday. And when Edward Lockett flew in from London last week he had lunch in Scotland-dinner in Iceland -breakfast in New York...
...waging a war of nerves, that censors who pass speculative articles might be less willing to permit predictions if the real thing were about to occur. But the expectancy is genuine. From London, heart of the Allies' main base for operations against the Continent, TIME Correspondent Edward Lockett this week cabled this report on how the world looked from that capital...
...save our gracious Queen," and forthwith standing. perched on a pile of gutter sweepings, on his head. He was not the only topsy-turvy thing about The Street. Its houses were all on one side and all their numbers, from 1 to 25, were odd. This gave Mr. Lockett, the grandiose Dickensian organist, opportunity to remark to General Brackenbury, a grand mogul who spiced his living with curry and memories of Balaklava, "By George, General, the man who numbered our street must have known who were going to live...
...like the rest of his family, the color of milk, or that the local barber should bear the name Cutbeard. Small Compton Mackenzie thought it only natural that Dr. Arden, who lived at No. 1, should, with his lanky frame and short frock coat, incarnate the figure 1. Mr. Lockett, living at No. 3, had carroty curls that puffed out beneath his curly-brimmed silk hat "in a very three-like way." And who should live at No. 13 but the highly un fortunate Spinks. He was the impecunious editor of the weekly Bohemia, she was a frowzy woman...
...Knoxville, Tenn., impressed citizens gave Sam Lockett a suit, a trip to Chicago and the price of a plastic operation because he forgave Sam Pratt, who had cut off his nose...