Word: pa
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Davids, Pa...
...Only four U.S. dailies sell for 1? a copy. They are the Amesbury, Mass. News, Covington, Ohio Stillwater Valley News, Bangor, Pa. News and Fort Atkinson, Wis. News...
...Prohibition that brought Mencken perhaps his richest experiences and inspired perhaps his most uplifting prose. One day he went with Publisher Alfred Knopf to hear the Bach Choir at Bethlehem, Pa., and "our tonsils became so parched that we could barely join in the final Amen." Rushing frenziedly to a strange speakeasy, they found themselves without a card of introduction. Mencken did not hesitate. Before the eye at the peephole he held his music score. The eye read...
...pass through the Chaplain School each month. A Medical Corps captain in the World War for twenty-one months he returned to civilian life as a member of the Officers' Reserve Corps, in which he was promoted to his present grade in 1930. His home is in Stroudsburg, Pa.; his specialy is neuropsychiatry; and his hobby is authoring books (among them his autobiographical "The Devil and the Doctor") and pulp-paper thrillers with scientific plots. He came on duty in the present emergency in June, 1941, and had tours of duty at Carlisle Barracks, Pa.; and Camp Lee, Va., before...
Jimbo-Jumbo, by now, was so important a news commentator-a man qualified to let everyone know that Germany would never attack Russia and that there was nothing to fear from Japan-that Ma and Pa could overlook his divorce. Briggsy took over everything that might disturb the great mind: his checkbook, his correspondence, the task of feeding his stomach ulcers their diet of hot milk every two hours...