Word: myopic
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Editor will be towering, myopic Staff Sergeant Frederick "Chip" cleary who has for 16 months been editor of one of the Army's best camp papers: Man 0' War, of the Santa Anita (Calif.) Army Ordnance Training Center...
Died. Hugh Cecil Lowther, 5th Earl of Lonsdale, 87, legendary last of an 18th-Century pattern - the swashbuckling, sporting peer; in Oakham, Rutland, England. A vigorous black sheep of one of Britain's noblest families, Lord Lonsdale was born at ugly, Gothic, ancestral Lowther Castle (described by myopic Wordsworth as "that majestic pile"), educated at Eton where he was flogged 32 times. He soon tired of this, joined a circus, toured Switzerland for a year and a half as an acrobat and trick rider, is said to have punched cows in Wyoming, explored Alaska, been either a bandit...
Thoughtful men thought twice when they learned that sardonic, myopic Subhas Chandra Bose, traitor, was with the Japs around Imphal. Twice President of the Indian National Congress and long the loudest foe of British rule in India, Bose's name was wildly cheered in Delhi after Bose himself had turned up in Berlin seeking Hitler's aid in freeing India. That was August...
...Diego (estimated pop. 390,000; 1940 pop. 203-341). Clinton Dotson McKinnon announced that the first edition of his New Dealish evening Journal would be published on St. Patrick's Day (because his mother was Irish). The Journal will break the San Diego general newspaper monoply of rich, myopic, 79-year-old Colonel Ira Clifton Copley owner of the arch-Republican morning Union (circ. 44,359) and evening Tribune-Sun (circ...
...German Pétain? At 56 Manstein is one of the youngest of Germany's field marshals. He has white hair, tired eyes, a beaked nose. Myopic, he wears the traditional Junker monocle. He dresses elegantly, sports a single decoration-the Iron Cross. He smokes thick cigars. In brief moments of leisure he plays the piano well, prefers solemn, well-ordered Bach to lighter, later composers. His hands are thin, well-manicured, almost feminine; his voice is quiet...