Word: pens
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Washington. In the humanities, the earnest searcher after truth finds himself handicapped not only by a diminished Faculty, but by a troublesome conscience. He, like his fellows, feels that war is taking the meaning from his studies and that he might do better with a sword than a pen...
...specialized buying varies with the season and the place where he is stationed. When the Army had its pay raised there was a tremendous run on fine watches (at a little over half outside cost). There is always a run on pen-&-pencil sets, cameras, portable radios, sentimental "sweetheart pillows," with two hearts intertwined. For 3,000 standard items, Exchange Service sets a top price for P-X wholesale buying, thus does a big job of chain procurement. For the rest, the price is up to the local exchange officer. With his low markup, he knows that he will...
...once bitterest satirist in modern German art. In World War I, in which he fought unwillingly-he was a pacifist-Berlin-born George Grosz conceived an emetic loathing for man and all his works. A magazine illustrator in Kaiser Wilhelm's reign, he turned a ferocious drawing pen on post-war Germany, ripped at its vitals in thousands of drawings that resembled the scrawls of a shell-shocked child. His savage pictures, famed in art circles the world over, showed thick-lipped, cigar-chewing bankers leering at mincingly decrepit prostitutes; mad-eyed, marble-jawed soldiers fighting crazily in corpse...
...daughter Barbara," explains Author Bemelmans airily, in this latest funny travelogue. Barbara, aged three-and-a-half, is the intimate of "the captains of at least half a dozen liners," and "pen pal of some future desperado." Barbara has met nice people everywhere, "and left them nicely alone." Her heart belongs to Daddy and to a host of "socially maladjusted" bums and crooks she has picked up in Cuba, Paris, Gramercy Park, Chile, Peru, Ecuador...
...spite of these confusing details, however, the basic fact has been established: the gun is more important than the pen. But this does not mean that every college student should pack his bag immediately and leave for the nearest enlistment office. Rather it means that his task is to stay here and train himself as much as he can until his gun is ready, knowing that he will be told by means of the call to duty when it is. He must train himself to be a better soldier, and to help fill the desperate need for trained men that...