Word: marvinism
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Gone but not forgotten: Lt. Charlie, of course, and gifts of advice ... J. Anton and pointed cynicism ... weeks free from 1600 meetings ... Hanson's iteration and re-iteration ... snow ... 6c airmail stamps ... meat on Wednesday ... student club singsongs ... Herilhy's "fawn the battalion" ... Kolker and "my name is Marvin J." ... And the case of champagne to: Lt. Beckham, attaining the senile age of 24 come 18 April ... Student Club Saturday night struggles ... Webb, Van Housen, Hope, Bergen, et al, for getting things done ... Captain MacIntosh for our 13-day leave ... and those one hundred iron men on their...
...this was a court-martial; that he, Bill, had been accused of using some very bad language and the group was gathered to see how good a swearer he really was. Forthwith joke-loving Franklin Roosevelt handed Bill Hassett a commission as full presidential secretary, to succeed the late Marvin Mclntyre...
...Divisional Commander General Marvin is unqualifiedly bad. He has been built up as one of the heroes of the invasion. But "I can tell you perfectly calmly that General Marvin showed himself during the invasion to be a bad man, something worse than what our troops were trying to throw...
When a mule cart blocked his armored car outside Adano, General Marvin ordered the cart tipped off the road. When the terrified mule began to scream, the General ordered it shot. When his staff officers objected, thinking of the effect on the townspeople of Adano, the General damned them up & down. Then the General issued an order forbidding any carts to enter Adano. That stopped all food to the starving town. When General Marvin and Major Joppolo met, each felt an instantaneous, unrelenting mutual dislike that grew in a few moments to intense hatred. When the General discovered that Joppolo...
Bats in the Belfry? But slowly, in spite of General Marvin, Italian apathy, and bureaucratic red tape, Adano was cleaned up, the houses repainted, the people fed, the Italian prisoners returned to their homes. But for Major Joppolo the war was over. His requisition for a bell for Adano struck headquarters as another sign of his failing mind. And when General Marvin discovered that the Major was still on the job, he stopped reading Secretary Stimson's commendations long enough to fire Joppolo...