Word: orphan
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Take-Off. The history of the Civilian Air Patrol was like that of Orphan Annie : indifference from well-fixed people ; danger from villains; and a steady series of hair breadth escapes from sudden death. CAP had been born out of wedlock: argument and tears had wangled it out of the Office of Civilian Defense with grudging Army consent. CAP was a hybrid : semimilitary, semi-civil...
...distant but none the less artistic past, a pair of previous triumphs and favorites on review day every Wednesday. Unfortunately, usually every Wednesday the dear old U.T. (God bless its cinematic heart) gives us the tripiest pieces it can remeber. Usually the review pieces are selected as though Little Orphan Annie were judging what is good enough to be shown again and what...
...fishing in the Jura Mountains when the Lowlands fell. He struck out for England in charge of the children of two English acquaintances, and on the way west he found it necessary to his conscience to pick up several more. They were a little French girl, an orphaned French boy, a derelict Dutch orphan, a ten-year-old Polish Jew who desired only to kill Germans, and ultimately, a Nazi child. All of them he made it his increasingly dangerous business to protect, to convey to England, to reserve from war's destruction both in body and spirit...
When the Catholic children of Buffalo, N.Y. began a crusade of prayer for the nation's soldiers and sailors, Myrtle was selected by lot to pray for the Commander in Chief. Myrtle is an orphan, eight years old. She says a prayer for Mr. Roosevelt every day, at least once a week attends Mass and receives Holy Communion for his protection. When sisters of the German Roman Catholic Orphan Asylum, where she lives, told her about it, Myrtle recognized her responsibility right away. She sat down, wrote to Mr. Roosevelt...
...first professional hockey game in the U.S.). Whether or not its citizens will get steamed up over a team that says "my heart belongs to Brooklyn," but plays its home games across the river in Manhattan's Madison Square Garden, remains to be seen. Last year the orphan Americans finished last in the seven-team league. This may be Brooklyn's year in hockey as well as baseball, but after three games last week there was no indication...