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...Intrepid, he arrived on the stage first. That was understandable. He was six foot eight or so, and simply strode over the heads of the others. We waltzed I, being five feet tall in my high heels, literally didn't touch the floor. The boys were delighted. Then they snug...
...this snug, over-safe corner of the world we need it [war], that we may realize that our comfortable routine is no eternal necessity of things, but merely a little space of calm in the midst of the tempestuous untamed streaming of the world. . . . High and dangerous action teaches us to believe as right beyond dispute things for which our doubting minds are slow to find words of proof. Out of heroism grows faith in the worth of heroism...
...Democratic Party not only had trouble at the top (see p. 14); it faced a pressing down-the-line problem: finding snug berths for party members defeated in November. President Roosevelt started the ball rolling by naming Oklahoma's silver-tongued Senator Josh Lee, who had performed many a New Deal chore, to the Civil Aeronautics Board. It mattered little whether Mr. Lee knows much about aviation ; the rules of the game made him eligible for an early good...
Arrested at the snug Connecticut country home which he bought with his literary earnings, Richard Krebs was taken to Ellis Island. Next day his 18-year-old wife began a battle for his freedom...
losses totaled three planes. . How the air reinforcements arrived in Malta is a snug R.A.F. secret. No secret is the fact that, meeting the Luftwaffe on equal terms, the R.A.F...