Word: messe
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Allied planes of all kinds and descriptions. First came a wave or "v" formation of seven planes. This was not unusual. Slightly interesting. In a moment, another similar formation- still not too unusual. Within a few minutes, dozens of such formations-the air was full of them. Hats, mess kits and everything else were going into the air-we felt certain the end of the War was near. The only report I ever read on that flight was the one referred to in the London Daily Mail, about a half-dozen lines regarding the flight of 310 planes over...
...existence. A sense of justice can in no way condone the immoral means of the "Watch and Ward" to put an end to Immorality. Mr. Delacey now stands acquitted and his accusers sufficiently stigmatized in the eyes of the world. The only hope remaining out of the whole mess is that the curtain has finally been rung down--on the "Dunster House Bookshop Case" and on the "Watch and Ward...
Carl Van Doren, Burton Rascoe, Julia Peterkin and Joseph Wood Krutch were the names signed to a letter (reported last week in the New Yorker) from the Literary Guild of America to the wardroom of the U. S. S. Warden. The letter was addressed "Mr. Wardroom Mess." The salutation: "Dear Mr. Mess...
...Judged by the standards of the artist, the Saturday Evening Post is clearly a sickening, a nauseating mess of hypocrisy and vulgarity. What I should like to emphasize, however, is simply this: to judge the Saturday Evening Post by such standards betrays two things: an astonishing lack of humor and an equally astonishing ignorance about the United States...
During the past few months, however, it has become fairly obvious that nothing can be done about cleaning up the mess, if everybody except a few fanatical teetotalers and topers remains silently acquiescent to a stupid compromise in which liquor is forbidden in order to please the days, and obtainable in order to satisfy the wets. If it is admitted that the vast majority of college men are dissatisfied with the present situation and that at least a good majority drink, according to their own confession, there will be cries against washing dirty linen in public, In the final, honest...