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...kind of speech that Americans eat up. It seemed careful, vague, not so much impersonal as depersonalized. As a statement of Britain's war aims it was neither as stirring nor as plain as Winston Churchill's words, which always have enough tabasco in them to remind Americans that Winnie is half-American himself. Nevertheless, though Lord Halifax was obviously not the kind of man who ever could or ever would quite clear his throat of British phlegm, by last week the U. S. had begun to appreciate British understatement, of which the Ambassador...
...first shaky hours in the air, spectacular panoramas of scores of planes in formation, a gasp-making exhibition of hedgehopping over the Texas countryside. And after graduation there is a mock night air raid on Los Angeles photographed both from the ground, where the stabbing searchlights may remind Californians of a market opening, and the inside of a B-17 (Flying Fortress) bomber, where cinemaudiences can get a close-up of destruction in the making...
...entire myth was the brain-child of the '44 Jubilee Committee, attempting to remind its classmates to invite their home-town girl to the big Freshman weekend during the spring vacation. Designed and penned by Edward Mahoney '44, already famous for his Petty-like posters displayed for past. Freshman affairs, the letters coyly answered an imagined invitation to the Jubilee...
...your office. . . . RFC's officiousness, ill will bad temper and manners have interested me." When he heard that one of Jones's secretaries had described him as "obnoxious and a nuisance," he wrote in Hickory News: "The reason I am a nuisance . . . is that I remind these men of their carelessness, inefficiency and incompetence." Such colorful invective appealed to anti-New Deal newsmen and columnists who reprinted a lot of it. Some of it was inserted in the Congressional Record by obliging Congressmen...
...have the right idea about fighting out a tune together, then Johnny Wilson's is the place for you (and me). I might add that the clientele has never heard of Harvard, and unless you feel like getting your teeth knocked in, you'll do well not to remind anyone of your presence...