Word: notes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...right note was sounded when Lieutenant Towne suggested a permanent concession behind Chase designed to improve the humor and up the efficient of all midshipmen during these sweltering days. But Boston's beer supply would never bear the strain. We'll just have to wait for that long New England winter...
Altogether, he had a stack a foot high-pictures of Australian girls, native women with nothing above the waist, movie actresses, pin-up girls. He sent this whole stack to his girl with a note: 'I don't remember exactly who you are, but if your picture is among these, please pick it out and send the rest back to me.' '' The men moved to the diner...
...Buenos Aires, extreme nationalist organizations seized the golden opportunity to stage street demonstrations against what they termed Yankee bullying. Pro-Nazi newspapers, El Federal, Cabildo, La Fronda screamed the same note. Foreign Minister Orlando Peluffo, in the first speech he had made in his three months in office, nicely balanced a protest of good-neighborly intentions with a proud declaration of independence. Many an Argentine who had looked on the military regime with a fishy eye was now moved to support it as defender of his country's sovereignty...
...distinguish it, and which led reviewers to praise its author's vitality, are 1) an acute disgust with the oversimplifications and idealizations of most historical fiction, 2) a pounding, repetitious style which, in 363 pages, develops considerable force, and 3) a genuine mastery of hillbilly dialogue. Readers who note how well Author Pennell pictures his plain soldiers, and how successful he is when he is not melodramatic, may wonder why he felt compelled to overload his book with lurid details, hope he will go easier next time...
...note, however, was injected by one unfortunate Freshman, who saw his blind date walk off with a stag a few minutes before the end of the dance. He sorrowfully but vehemently declared, "I wish they would enforce the no-stag rule at a no-stag dance!" Most of the twelve, however, thought the bureau was "a pretty good gamble." Everybody had an enjoyable evening dancing to a variety of slow and fast numbers supplied by the Record Committee, and exploring the dark solitude of the Upper Common Room...