Word: sendoff
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...departing force passed south of Attu, some of the men suddenly saw the heroes of Attu coming out to give them a sendoff, waving Rising Sun flags from small boats. Others heard a distant roar of "Banzai...
Armor General. The Army moved swiftly to close ranks, named as its new European commander Lieut. General Jacob L. ("Jakie") Devers, chief of the Armored Forces. War Secretary Henry L. Stimson gave him a handsome sendoff: "General Devers has been especially prepared for this assignment. He made a recent trip through the whole African and European theater. He is thoroughly conversant with present and future plans...
...give the men a rousing sendoff the entire QM unit will meet in Chase Hall directly after the movie this coming Wednesday evening, March 31. The departing cadets will be called upon to give short talks...
Last week 460 Park Avenue added another artist to its stable: a tiny, rusty-haired, Austrian-born portrait painter named Clara Klinghoffer. To give Artist Klinghoffer a good sendoff, 460 Park Avenue spruced up one of its best rooms, put on a show of 28 paintings and drawings, including portraits of such notables as Tenor Sergei Radamsky, tunbellied Author Hendrik Willem van Loon. For a portraitist with such a good address, Painter Klinghoffer is medium-priced, will do a muscled, Michelangelesque drawing for $60, a Rembrandtesque oil for $650. An expert at accurate anatomy and spitting imagery, Artist Klinghoffer...
Last year Paramount Pictures threw a big costume party in Omaha, Neb. to give its Union Pacific a rousing sendoff. Exuberant citizens had so much fun they decided to have another Golden Spike...