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Pride and Frustration. Then the British moved in. They cut French General Oliva Roget's line of communication with his base at Beirut. Into Damascus clanked a column of Sherman tanks on which Union Jacks had been freshly painted. Up from Cairo flew General Sir Bernard Paget, British commander in chief in the Middle East, who had several hundred thousand men on call. Paget ordered Roget to "cease fire." The Frenchman said that he would not take orders from a Britisher. Paget suggested that Roget call his French superior, General Humbolt, at Beirut. Roget pointed out that the British...
...helpless. British tanks had nuzzled up to the French positions. While the city rang with welcome to the British, and Paget's red, handsome face beamed, Roget angrily ordered his men back to barracks. He raged that the British had shown up only after he had "restored order," and he told a Syrian journalist: "You are replacing the easygoing French with the brutal British." Unimpressed, Syrians killed what stray Frenchmen and Senegalese they could find. After curfew, the humiliated French had to accept British escort to places of safety...
...recent Jap-like stab in the back by a self styled amateur poet brings us to our feet, pen in hand and a curse on our lips. The "Light," so called, obviously minus his collegiate and Roget's Thesaurus is forced to rely on pilfered phrases such as "peasant," borrowed from those he seeks to persecute. These cowardly and poorly-rhymed attacks on our person by this word starved urchin of the Missouri wastelands are designed only to throw the spotlight of ridicule upon us, thus freeing the richly deserving J. Bernard Mathes, whose unshaven face grins stupidly before...
...been as all-round literary choreman, helping compose some of the most felicitous of Presidential letters, touching up the Presidential speeches and supplying apt quotations and historical facts. One of his prized possessions is an autographed photograph of the President inscribed: "To Bill Hassett −a rare combination of Roget, Bartlett and Buckle...
...Bing Crosby (on music), Variety's Jack Edward (entertainment slang), John A. Leslie of Ohio State Prison on the language of tramps and the underworld. His collaborator, Nebraskan Philologist Melvin Van den Bark, worked out the main outlines of classification and groupings of words. In general these follow Roget but they culminate in 430 highly readable pages on "Special Slang" of various trades, sports and regions. That section alone will probably help more third-rate novelists look like second-raters than .any previous book in history...