Word: palme
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Divorced. By Helen Lee Eames Doherty Wessel, stepdaughter of the late multimillionaire utilitycoon Henry L. Doherty: Theodore William Wessel, former Danish Chargé d'Affaires in Santiago; seven years after marriage; in West Palm Beach. Her extravagant Washington debut in threadbare 1930 was the target of Congressional criticism; party favors for some of the guests were automobiles...
Unfortunately, the penchant to give parties for eligible young officers is not confined to schools, which have an abundant supply of equally eligible young ladies, Mrs. Giard has had to protect "her boys" from the wiles of fond mothers who wished to palm off their less popular daughters on the unsuspecting...
...snowy streets, dragging their burdens on small sleds. When the water system fails, they chop holes in the ice to scoop water out of the gutters. They line up daily in long queues for their dwindling food rations; each carries off an allotment of bread that barely covers the palm of his hand. In their heatless homes and factories they work, eat and sleep in greatcoats, gloves and hats...
...they thrived on a new design: "Remember Pearl Harbor," with a bomb about to drop on the words and "December Seventh" on either side of the bomb. But last week they said that U.S. sailors were returning to old favorites such as hula-hula girls, a ship framed with palm trees above "Hawaii" or "Aloha...
...They hold their fire when the enemy is not firing, so as not to give away their positions. They dig deep, stand-up foxholes, which are safe except under direct artillery fire (and which are better than U.S. slit trenches). On the defensive, they dig themselves dugouts protected by palm trunks, and then they crawl in and resist until some explosive or a human terrier kills them. Parachutist Major Harry Torgeson, who had the job of blasting Japs out of the caves on Gavutu (TIME, Sept. 7), reported finding Japs firing machine guns over the horribly stinking corpses of comrades...