Word: majorities
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Maoris, the visitor was Te Rangi Hiroa (The-Heavens-Streaked-with-the-Sun). The outside world knows him as Sir Peter Buck, onetime member of New Zealand's Parliament, major in World War I, now head of Honolulu's Bishop Museum, traveling professor at Yale and the world's leading authority on Polynesian anthropology. To the Pacific Science Congress, meeting at Auckland last week, Sir Peter brought along some distinguished delegates. Under his guidance they came to learn more about his mother's people, the vigorous islanders who fought the New Zealand whites until...
...played when "the big guys"-Eddie Cantor, Irving Berlin-used to come down on weekends to plug songs. In his "more salady" days, he had been the first Negro ever to compose the complete score for a major movie: Mae West's I'm No Angel (1933). Mae had made They Call Me Sister Honky-Tonk and I Want You, I Need You memorable to her fans, but they had never really been hits on their...
Tobey had also stumbled across a major mystery. In 1947 the Commissioner of Internal Revenue had removed the tax exemption from three of Royal Little's trusts, ordered them to file tax returns on all past incomes. The trusts had not done so, said Tobey, and Internal Revenue had taken no further action. Asked Tobey: "How come...
Corporal Charlie Shuttleworth is grinding his teeth with anguish over his wife ("the cow!") who "jacked me in for a civvy"; Major Maddison is exulting as his platoon-in-training comes crashing through a barbed-wire obstacle with blood running from their face scratches (and he furtively pins a putative medal to his chest in the secrecy of his room); Colonel Pothecary, a plain man, stumbles warmheartedly through his announcement of the invasion: "Well, my lads. This is it. At last. You know, I'm damned if I know what to say to you . . . Eat when...
...first days of Overlord, the members of the sth crash ashore in France, and death begins its steady tithing. Corporal Shuttleworth dies with a snigger: "The cow, she'll get my pension." Major Maddison, leading a rash reconnaissance into disastrous ambush, is shot by one of his own infuriated men. Colonel Pothecary's turn comes too. "[He] rose to his feet . . . ignoring the bullets that squealed around him . . . They saw him stoop, pick a white flower from a hedgerow and fasten it, without haste, in his lapel. Everywhere in the meadow men rose and moved forward with...