Word: simonizing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...THINKING OF MY DARLING-Vincent McHugh - Simon & Schuster...
...earliest and shortest land-sea battles on record was a naval rout and cavalry triumph. In 1818 José Antonio Páez, a crack horseman and guerrilla leader under Simon Bolivar, sent 50 of his llaneros against a flotilla of Spanish gunboats anchored in the middle of the Apure river in Venezuela. Waving spears and howling like Oriental dervishes, they swam their barebacked white horses through the swift, brown waters. Astonished Spaniards fired a few random shots and then jumped overboard in panic. Páez took every boat, without losing...
...ardent supporter of the R.A.F. but not always well informed on German air rearmament. When presented with an awkward question, Ramsay MacDonald, as Prime Minister, explained that he could do nothing about air, and sent Londonderry to Neville Chamberlain. Chamberlain was interested only in finance. Sir John Simon thought the air force a nuisance. When asked about the R.A.F., Stanley Baldwin replied with talk about cricket, rowing or books. Those years were a period of despondency for Lord Londonderry. Says he: "There was nothing I could do at the time [in 1936, when he was no longer Air Minister...
ROUGHLY SPEAKING - Louise Randall Pierson-Simon and Schuster...
LOVE IN AMERICA-David L. Cohn-Simon & Schuster...