Word: perfects
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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This week the Massachusetts Legislature gathers in special session to perfect its soldier vote law. When the Representatives finish their deliberations beneath the Sacred Cod on the wall, and the State Senate concurs, Massachusetts will probably have the most intelligent - and non-controversial - soldier vote law in the U.S. Anyone in the family can get a ballot sent to a serviceman. Even a constitutional requirement that new voters must be able to read the State Constitution in English will cause no trouble. Five lines of the Constitution will be printed on the ballot envelope. A sergeant on the remotest Pacific...
...spirit of fair play prevent me from including any more excerpts from Miss Kellems' correspondence with the Nazi Count of Argentina." Miss Kellems, 48-year-old parson's daughter, who last January briefly denied she had ever known Zedlitz, raged in a statement for the press: "The perfect coordination . . . among Secretary Morgenthau, Mr. [Columnist Drew] Pearson and Mr. Coffee is a joy to behold. . . . Come off the floor of that House, Mr. Coffee, where you are protected by your Congressional immunity. . . . Before the New Deal destroyed the last vestige of decency . . . any man who would do what...
...back from Berlin the Polish crew of the big R.A.F. bomber caught it hot & heavy. The flak was astonishingly accurate. The searchlights never let them go, the gunners on the ground seemed to have perfect range. Only occasional clouds, violent evasive action and luck saved them...
...produced by the Theater Guild in association with Jack H. Skirball) uses one of the grimmest moments of the war-the fall of France-for half-satiric, half-fantastic comedy. Its comic thesis is that flight from the Nazis makes strange carfellows. A swaggering, snooty Polish colonel with "a perfect 15th-Century mind" (well played by Louis Calhern) and a rueful, humorous, clever Jewish refugee (delightfully played by Oscar Karlweis) both have to bolt from Paris on the run. The colonel cannot find a car; Jacobowsky finds one but cannot drive. Grandly tossing out Jacobowsky's luggage, the colonel...
...least one was caught off guard. When Chile seemed on the point of welcoming Argentina's new anti-U.S. government, the State Department frantically tried to get in touch with its Chilean Embassy. But sad-eyed Ambassador Claude G. Bowers, 65, who has not bothered to perfect his Spanish during eleven years as a diplomat in Spain and South America, could not be reached.* He was off in the country, relaxing on a long, leisurely weekend...