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...question like that can cause one of three reactions in a swing critic: insanity, high blood pressure, or a shrug. All this is old hat to the boys in the know, but there comes a time when a would-be swing critic wants to get the subject of Glenn Miller off his chest, once...
...some official quarters in Washington attempts were made to shrug off the obscure Jap moves in the Aleutians as feints or minor encroachments. But the U.S. had reason to worry. Kiska has not only a good harbor but some flat land for airfields. The busy little Japs were under cover of Aleutian fog, and probably building air and submarine bases, emplacing anti-aircraft guns, sneaking in shells, bombs and torpedoes. Apparently anticipating a Japanese move east to Atka Island and northeast to the Pribilof Islands, the Army announced the evacuation of 550 natives to southeastern Alaska...
Governor Edison knew that President Roosevelt's appointment of Meaney was the routine sort of kick-in-the-face that practical politicians must learn to shrug off. He knew that, unless he held his peace, he would embarrass Friend Roosevelt. Yet last week, with the philosophic detachment of the deaf, and the practical detachment of a man to whom politics is more than a game, he sat down and wrote a statesman's letter to the Senate Judiciary Committee...
...stunts that the city fathers and their representatives have pulled in the past, such as banning issues of Esquire and tearing pages out of Life Magazine, have proven merely ludicrous, but the latest ruling from the municipal bag of tricks cannot be passed off with a tolerant shrug. Last Monday the City Council, by unanimous vote, moved that "the sale, display, or distribution on the streets of the City of Boston of all newspapers published out of the state of Massachusetts be prohibited" unless the news dealer or individual newsboy peddling said papers lays ten dollars on the line...
...played too long a part un worthy of her. She had consented to be the Dona her world had demanded-a superficial, lovely creature, who walked, and talked, and laughed, accepting praise and admiration with a shrug of the shoulder as natural homage to her beauty, careless, insolent, deliberately indifferent, and all the while another Dona, a strange, phantom Dona, peered at her from a dark mirror and was ashamed...