Word: patly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...completely by Freshmen, the play is directed by Pat Conway and produced by Mary Savage. As you might have guessed the scene is laid in a big city nightspot, in the ladies dressing room, thus...
...implications of this speech have been soft-pedalled because of Wallace's acceptance of "Russia" and tabooed "Communism" as factors which are inextricably bound up with the future of democracy. Granted that Wallace was speaking before the Congress of American-Soviet Friendship, the speech was more than a pat on the back for out new ally. He neglected the fact that Russia is still a dictatorship, and that in other ways we have democratic ideals and institutions that Sovietism has missed. But that wasn't Wallace's subject. He took a courageous stand, almost unpreccedented by any other high government...
...Siam's Premier Luang Pitul Songgram (pronounced Lwong Peboon Song-kram) was proving a capper, zealous little quisling. Japanese occupation forces were careful to remember that it is against Siamese custom to pat children on the head. But raging floods had driven thousands of Siamese from their homes, destroyed half the rice crop, brought on a famine which was increased by the shipping shortage. The Japanese felt it necessary to deny, by radio, that they were responsible for the drenching skies and swollen rivers...
...could treat the food problem as a disastrous Act of God. The harvest year 1942 was the most bounteous since the Pilgrims came to Plymouth Rock. The Japs and Nazis had cut the U.S. off from only a few more or less exotic foodstuffs. (Examples: caviar, anchovies, patée de fois gras.) Thus, with reason, all over the land the U.S. housewife and her menfolk were beginning to ask: How come a bottleneck in the middle of a horn of plenty? But there was no one bottleneck. There were nine...
After last year's Louisiana maneuvers he criticized leadership and discipline (TIME, Sept. 29, 1941). This year he gave a pat on the back. Lear's forces have lost many officers to new units in formation (U.S. division increase in one year: 27 to 72). But leadership, said McNair, is excellent among the higher officers. As for discipline: "Last year, the maneuvers stopped when men gathered around a pop vendor. They filled themselves full of pop, then they couldn't march or fight. I haven't seen any of that this year...