Word: overnights
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...staggered into South Station laden down with the necessities of his annual Spring fishing trip. Disposed clumsily and loosely about his person were two fishing rods, a tackle box, a landing net, a small overnight bag, and a fishskin-bound volume of Izaak Walton. Before running the gamut of redcaps waiting eagerly to receive him, Vag stopped to reflect. Six parcels meant he would have to pay the porter sixty cents -- a rather stiff assessment coming so soon after his last weekend in New York...
...really interested Iceland was that in London last week the "Mother [but not oldest] of Parliaments" was flatly promised by First Lord of the Admiralty Winston Churchill that the Nazis will be kept out of Iceland. Last year there was every sign that A. Hitler & Co. might be ready overnight to seize this kingdom...
...Ordered masters of vessels to lock up all cameras while passing through the Panama Canal; entertained as overnight guests Dr. Rafael A. Calderon Guardia, President-elect of Costa Rica, and his wife. Declared President-elect Guardia: the defense of the Canal is Costa Rica's vital interest, for which she is ready to take any measure...
...Valera promptly denounced the treaty his own men had signed, but the Dail Eireann approved it. Losing his immense popularity overnight, the onetime hero went, with the irreconcilable I. R. A., once again into armed revolt. Ireland counted more dead, among them Rory O'Connor, executed by the Irish Provisional Government and Michael Collins, mainstay for years of the rebellion movement, ambushed and shot by the I. R. A. For two years de Valera hid from not British but Irish forces. Die-hards stood by him through thick & thin, continuing to consider him the genuine President of the Irish...
Japan's Army could clean up the Badlands overnight. But Japan's Army knows better. It much prefers to cultivate the Badlands as: 1) a source of needed revenue; 2) a point of pressure on the International Settlement. For over a year the policing of Shanghai, both inside and outside the Settlement, has caused a two-way controversy. The Japanese want control of Settlement patrols (which would be the next thing to getting control of the Settlement) and the Settlement's Municipal Council wants to help keep order in outlying areas. Last week the Municipal Council...