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...World War French 75s, improved to give faster fire and greater range) rolled into place behind motorized infantrymen, who made long marches by truck. New mortars arched shells into supposed enemy lines with an accuracy never approached in 1918. "Silhouette" machine-gun units went into battle firing from low-slung trucks. Some of the army's 283 light tanks tried out against new anti-tank guns which can supposedly stop any tank within range...
...buckskins off and their coonskin caps hanging from the wrong hatracks, wenching, gambling, stealing, murdering. What bothered old settlers was that Author Robertson attributed these activities to prominent people readily identified as his ancestors-Indian scouts, Senators, wealthy planters. Civil War heroes. When neighbors complained, "You've really slung mud over us all," when a regent of the State D. A. R. jumped to the attack, the Robertson family called a reunion at nearby Chauga Creek, and with clan spirit outweighing pride in their distinguished ancestors, defended the book and outspoken Descendant...
Thousands of Sokols in their flashing uniforms-shirts of Garibaldi red, grey Czech jackets slung from their left shoulders, little round red caps with falcon feathers-last week poured into Prague's big, bustling Masaryk and Wilson (named after Woodrow Wilson) railway stations, stomped out to the mammoth Masaryk Stadium,* high above the silvery Vltava River and the cathedral towers of the capital. There, in white jerseys and blue trousers and skirts, they twisted and bent in mass exercise. Before the month is over, 160,000 members will have participated in such elaborate drills...
Many an Anglican approved. Kenneth Ashcroft, a rural dean near London, exclaimed: "People who put a halfpenny in the collection plate . . . should be slung out of the church." His church, he added, had raised collections 20% by substituting open plates for the velvet alms bags generally used in England...
...Franklin Roosevelt was in close touch with Washington. Well-worn pigskin Presidential mail pouches went to and from the train with incessant regularity. While he stopped beside a road in Washington to watch a "high-rigger" lumberjack lop the top off a fir tree, another kind of high-rigger slung a wire across the single telephone wire along the road, handed the instrument to the President's Secretary Marvin Mclntyre. Spadework on last week's speech was presumably done in the State Department by specialists like Ambassador-at-Large Norman Davis. The President presumably reworked their drafts-adding...