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...veterans, during the air attacks and during the shelling. The time I went up to the Military Hospital to see the wounded Americans who had been brought in the first day, the older Scouts were serving as stretcher-bearers. They were big husky boys. I have never seen any nicer looking boys-not even in Denmark and, as thee knows, that is a lot for me to say. As I returned from the hospital, troops were digging machine-gun nests, and I heard that machine guns were being placed on the tops of buildings and that some of the roads...
...other fairies gremlins shouldn't be confused with: duppies (West Indian nuisances who throw rocks on your roof at night and whose eyes burn like fire); afreets (Arabic sprites who cause dust whirlwinds in front of bad camels and sometimes are called "dust-devils" for it); jinn (far nicer Arabic folk who come out of bottles and alternately plague and help old people) and the numerous progeny of "Old" Al (the Mississippi River spirit who loves chewing tobacco supplied slyly at night by steamboat hands...
...this, the 2,500 harried beauty-parlor operators who scurried to Chicago last week for the annual convention of the American Cosmeticians National Association, worried about the loss of their nimble-fingered beauticians who are fleeing to defense jobs (as one girl said, "I work fewer hours in nicer surroundings and I don't have to listen to that damned gossip all day long from those chairs full of busybodies...
Oldtime GOPoliticos did not quite know what to make of this new-and nicer-political face as Convention Keynoter Boothe stood before the microphone, slim and cool in a black silk dress, occasionally gesturing gently with a pair of blue-rimmed harlequin spectacles. (Murmured one: "She can even wear glasses!") As keynoter of the Connecticut convention, she clearly stated her concern with the terrible necessity of making democracy work in the middle of the war-to-end-civilization, and the editors who saw that she had ably stated the general concerns of many citizens reprinted here & there her text...
There are scores of messages: oddly enough, they are all good. Fashioned in the old Behrman style, the play of social-conscience fits much nicer than you'd expect. It is terribly soap-boxcy in spots, extremely aggravating in others. But these are details...