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...rolling prairies of the Platte River country. They met as legal eaglets at the University of Missouri in Columbia, Mo. Both, on graduation, went to St. Louis to practice. Both became members of the same Grace Methodist Episcopal Church in a "nice" residential district; both joined the same Scottish Rite Masonic lodge; both became trustees of the church and members of the Salvation Army's board. Mrs. Donnell and Mrs. McDaniel for 23 years have been members of the same Mother-craft club, and their children belong to the same church clubs and Sunday School...
...matter); "Resolved, the hen is flightier than the Ford," etc. These debates were considered so funny that the group toured Missouri for years, the spontaneously funny McDaniel roaring at his own gags; grave, reserved Donnell making his points with a lemony smile. When Donnell became Inspector-General of the Scottish Rite lodge, McDaniel eulogized his friend in a tribute that was held to be the exhaustive last word...
...Most British were so confident of Britain's naval strength that they disallowed a seaborne blow at Eire, and thought that if there was to be attack on Ireland, it would be a violent airborne diversion. Similar diversions were to be expected at the Orkneys and on the Scottish coasts...
...Some Reds are just unfortunate tools. The Government has got to face the issue as a matter of war strategy. . . . Working men and women in Scottish industry, don't you allow any minority to create a condition to force the State to take action it doesn't want to take [i.e., suppress the British Communist Party]. . . . I am not going to be a party to punishing 99 per cent to stop one per cent, but if there are some subversive elements trying to interfere with the war effort, I will deal with that one per cent...
British tommies, Scottish "Ladies from hell" and Greek soldiers' locked arms and danced through the streets of ancient Athens, which resounded with the Greek and British national anthems...