Word: madnesses
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Most of the feeling against the G.I.S is from our own men. The womenfolk think them most friendly, charming, generous and cheerful. The menfolk are jealous. Why? Because the girls like to be friends with the Yanks and, I suppose, naturally our soldiers feel mad because they don't get a chance with the girls...
Kwajalein had proved the effectiveness of greatly increased naval and air bombardment. It had also proved that no atoll can be captured until the foot soldiers wade ashore and kill the remaining Japs. The boss of Central Pacific foot soldiers is amphibious warfare's kindly, choleric "Howlin' Mad" Smith, who looks and sometimes talks like Wallace Beery in the role of a Marine general. He is the father of modern U.S. amphibious warfare...
...Then the General. When mercurial Brigadier General Smith took over the 1st Brigade in 1939, he had long since lost his earlier nickname "Hoke." The name his fellow Marines knew him by was "Howlin-Mad." He was always demanding and often profane. He could be kind, too. He fumed and scolded, but when he laughed he laughed deep in the belly. He was enthusiastic, thoughtful, stubborn, a hard driver. Sometimes he scaled the heights of elation; again he walked hip-deep in despair...
Most chillers overcrowd the screen with werewolves or explain away all supernatural antics as the deliberate hocus-pocus of a mad scientist, estate-grabber or Axis agent. The Uninvited blends the everyday with the inexplicable, gets a lot of its best scares out of the everyday. The skittering of a squirrel across the drumhead floors of the vacant house suddenly gives vacancy a cold portentousness. The scraping of a wine glass against a table, during the seance, is more scary than the seance itself. The unexpected smashing of a window while you are watching a rather good Paramount ghost rasps...
Connally of Texas had the floor. "Mr. President," he cried, "the war in Europe is over, suh." Everyone cheered like mad. It had been over for two months already, but it was great to have someone say so officially. The New York Daily News promptly warned its readers that soon all elections would be suspended. Radio Commentator Kaltenborn began to think up phrases for the unseen millions; Commentator Arthur Hale prepared some confidential sidelights. Roosevelt appointed Hull and Byrnes as U.S. delegates to the peace conference. He also appointed Willkie-just before Willkie was to be nominated for President...