Word: roll
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Killed in Action. Commando Captain Lord Henry Valerian George Wellesley, 31, 6th Duke of Wellington, fifth-generation descendant of Waterloo's victor; in a raid on northeastern Sicily. Army career man, veteran of Ethiopia, he inherited from his father titles that sounded the Napoleonic battle roll, some $1,000,000 in landed estates, the ancestral right of keeping his hat on in the King of Spain's presence...
...Princeton ('31), there art-edited the Princeton Tiger. He sold his first drawings to Judge, College Humor and the old Life. After college he studied at Manhattan's famed Art Students League under Thomas Hart Benton. Says Darrow of this training: "He taught me how to roll Bull Durham cigarets." Darrow's first New Yorker appearance was a study of two girl nudists admiring a male fellow nudist: "Last night I saw him in a blue serge suit. Zowie...
...helped in setting up the psychology library, made the double-clock roll call a familiar part of ASTP routine, and led the company through its first practices drill for the big review September...
...Rayburn was convinced that defeat of the bill would be disastrous to the U.S. When the day for the vote arrived, Sam Rayburn was in a state of honest mental anguish; neither he nor anyone else knew for certain how the votes would go. As the clerk called the roll, Sam kept accurate count: the final tally showed the bill passed 203-202. Before any coward could switch his vote, Sam Rayburn, in a shrewd tactical move, announced the total, gaveled down all moves for reconsideration. He had won; and the U.S. Army was not disbanded four months before Pearl...
...grove of oak trees. Here is no telephone, no mail delivery; only a yawning fireplace, walnut beds, and electric stove for steak broiling and an old-fashioned icebox, usually filled with watermelons. Here, on the hot summer afternoons, Sam Rayburn lolls around, often in his shorts, letting the sweat roll down his bald head. Or fie inspects the solid fence-posts hewed out of bois d'arc (pronounced, in Texas, bo-dark), or sits popping huge chunks of red watermelon into his mouth from the end of a rancher's stiletto, or plays a little dominoes with...