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...Cairo, the New York Herald Tribune's correspondent, John ("Tex") O'Reilly, found U.S. soldiers no less infected with the new English language: "When two Americans are having a drink they no longer shout 'Down the hatch!' They raise their glasses and say 'Cheers' in modulated tones. . ... Everybody is a 'type' of some sort: 'good type,' 'bad type' or 'good-bad type' . . . and there are innumerable other classifications: melancholy type, backward type, insistent type. ... A guy becomes a chap, and a fair number of Americans...
...great Lillian Nordica's gaslit heyday (1890-1910) U.S. woman's weight has dwindled. One result : a scarcity of great U.S. Wagnerian sopranos. Today few U.S. women singers have the beef and brawn that helped Nordica and her famous U.S. contemporaries (Olive Fremstad,* Emma Eames, etc.) to shout down batteries of Wagnerian trumpets and trombones...
...Some] among us still believe in the age of miracles. They forget there is no Joshua in our midst. We cannot count on great walls crumbling and falling when the trumpets blow and the peoples shout...
...muddy Mississippi. At a lonely spot below Cape Girardeau, Mo. there was important work to be done. It was 4 a.m., but time and the weather mattered little. As the creaking cranes slowly dropped a huge tube of steel through the water down to the soggy river bed, a shout went up. The job was done...
...call of 'Halt!' followed almost immediately by volleys of gunfire." But with the first real fight the cool battle fortitude began to develop. "Down the beach one of the Japs had jumped up and was running for the jungle. 'There he goes!' was the shout. 'Riddle the son of a bitch!' And riddled...