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Some very unkind things were said about her. There she sat, sleek and new, the biggest plane in the world-on the ground. For ten weeks she sat there, on Clover Field at Santa Monica, Calif. In one of her first taxiing tests, the Douglas B-19 had chewed up her hydraulic braking system. Earlier she had broken through the macadam pavement. Some, who should have known Douglas Aircraft and the Air Corps better, said she'd never get into the air, she was too heavy...
...Strauss sees them all as so many Joys and Glooms. Among the Joys: Ellen Wilkinson, Sir Stafford Cripps ("affectionately" called "Christ and Carrots" Cripps because he is a vegetarian and "a deeply convinced Christian, although not a churchman"), Welsh Coal Miner M.P. Aneurin Bevan, John Strachey ("a big sleek black cat, with perfect manners and a feline ability to keep his object firmly in view"), Victor Gollancz (cofounder of Britain's Left Book Club), Professor Harold Laski...
There, big as life, shining in the full June moon, lay the sleek, clean form of a German pocket battleship...
...done much to take the snarls out of Air Corps administration. In sleek, double-breasted linen suits (usually blue), monogrammed white shirts, Yale-blue ties, he works seven days a week when at the War Department. Seldom does he get a weekend at home on Long Island with his two children and his wife (the former Adele Quartley Brown, whom he married after he returned from World...
Official reason for the move was reported to Lake Genevans by Scribner's Commentator Editor George Teeple Egleston, sleek ex-editor of the old Life. Manhattan, said he, produced editorial frustration largely because of "Mayor LaGuardia's yells that the German bombers are coming...