Word: notes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...proceed to try to teach what remains of the class (e.g., Bob Brocker's now asleep in the second row) we can try, too. Further more, "Broomie" made it on time, too, and if he can still fight the war after Tuesday night, anyone can. But we do note, alas, that, "Papp" Dye couldn't make it the morning after. Congratulations to the hosts if, unlike Brocker, they are as yet in condition to receive them...
...statistical note for the Wolfboro Daily Bugle: Ernie Hyne's recent defection from the ranks of the bachelors brings our class average up to 19 percent, not quite the 60 per cent once predicted. Thus far there have been no announced contributions to the figure of "nine-tenths per family." Don't despair yet, Professor Hanson...
...note that the Army has relaxed its non-fraternization rule in Germany but still sternly adheres to it in Cowie Hall. It's not possible, is it, that eating with Supply Corps personnel could be adjudged "intercourse with the enemy," the United States being in a state...
...Prime Minister (1908-16) Herbert H. Asquith, longtime society enfant terrible; after a brief illness; in London. Her gossipy books (More or Less about Myself, Off the Record) about famed friends and enemies never violated her premise that "reticence is dull reading." Her lifetime of audacities included writing a note in pencil to Queen Victoria, declining to stay at a dinner party despite King Edward's request, staging a fashion show at No. 10 Downing Street...
This book is his effort to carry out the resolution he made in Athens-to survive and speak out. It is a damning document. Sometimes its sodden weight of human malevolence, its recurrent three-note theme of jailed, tried, shot, is all but unbearable. One little story, a tiny detail of suffering, could stand for the whole tragedy that it highlights. Marshal Tukhachevsky's twelve-year-old daughter was not informed that he had been liquidated overnight. But when she got to school the next day, the other children shouted abuse at her and refused...