Word: out-of-the-way
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...Bible School with a knife. "Being a good law-abiding Christian," said the cook, "certainly does break down a man's patience in the end." But the Presbyterian Espeys remained patient to the end. To son-&-heir John J. Espey, these scenes of Shanghai childhood seemed nothing out-of-the-way - until his parents brought him home to the U.S. in 1930 (he now teaches English at Los Angeles Occidental College). Minor Heresies is a gay and graceful account of his exotic boyhood...
...French people, still not fully aware of the long personal duel between F.D.R. and De Gaulle, were puzzled. Their press told the story in bits & pieces. Some papers politely took Franklin Roosevelt to task for summoning Charles de Gaulle from his capital to an out-of-the-way meeting place. But others unloosed cautious criticism of General de Gaulle himself. Was not Le Grand Charlie being a little too proud and stiff-necked? Said L'Aurore: "We must repeat that we remain a great power, but should we not all the more carefully avoid showing bad humor?" Added...
...another flagrant case, the command ing officer of a troop carrier squadron was in on a deal that netted $2,000 a trip, amounting in all to $50,000. His planes often landed at out-of-the-way fields under pretense of motor trouble, so that smugglers could unload under cover of darkness. In another case, a U.S. soldier and four Chinese were arrested in Kunming with $7,000 worth of sulfanilamide...
...married Josiah Dewey, great-great-great-great-great-grandfather of Candidate Dewey. The Lymans' son was the great-great-great-great-grandfather of Katharine Robbins Lyman, who married Warren Delano, maternal grandfather of the President. *When he left the U.S. in 1935, Lindbergh first rented an out-of-the-way 500-year-old house in Sevenoaks, Kent County, England, later bought the barren, out-of-the-way Breton isle of Illiec, lived there for six months near his great & good friend, Scientist Alexis Carrel, now reported held by the F.F.I, as an alleged collaborationist. * In Hollywood, Producer Hunt Stromberg...
Accomplishment. Says Thomas Mann (who was 69 on D-day): "I have often been asked what it actually was that made me turn to this remote and out-of-the-way subject. . . ." Two of his own answers: his reading of Goethe, who once thought of writing the Joseph story himself; Mann's lifelong interest in Egypt...