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...articles I have read, I get the impression that all men of the armed forces use an odd slang in which nothing is referred to by its right name. I can't speak for the Army, but so far as I have observed in the Marine Corps, a spade is a spade. Viz., potatoes are potatoes, bread is bread, catsup (when we have it) is catsup...
...tried to minimize the whole affair. Said able, cool Louis Stephen St. Laurent, Minister of Justice: ". . . a group of from one-tenth to one-half of one percent of the population [of Quebec] should not be taken too seriously. . . . Senator Bouchard is one of those who assert that a spade should be called a spade but sometimes . . . he is apt to refer to such an implement as a steam shovel...
Russian summer and invasion time came to Moscow together. Flower girls hawked lilacs and forget-me-nots. Soda-water wagons rolled through the streets with neighborhood kids in tow. Workers hurried home at day's end to spade their victory gardens. The Moscow River brightened with canoes and racing shells. There were concerts and operettas in the parks. The trees along the Kremlin's wall turned a lovely green. Fresh coats of paint shone on the trams and busses...
...Habit." Franklin Roosevelt did a little spade work on his own. While White House reporters stared incredulously, Montana's bitterly anti-Roosevelt Senator Burton K. Wheeler walked in for his first White House visit since the spring of 1940. After a 45-minute chat, Burt Wheeler emerged, told newsmen that he and the President had discussed the coming 100th anniversary celebration of Samuel F. B. Morse's telegraph.* Burt Wheeler added: "I'm against a fourth term, or a third term, for any President." But diplomatic relations had at least been reestablished...
Felt Necessities. Privately, the 27-year-old ex-soldier had other views about his experience. "We [soldiers]," he said, "have learned that whether a man accepts from Fortune her spade and will look downward and dig, or from Aspiration her axe and cord and will scale the ice, the one and only success which it is his to command is to bring to his work a mighty heart." But when Emerson talked to him passionately of the work of reconstruction that lay ahead, young Holmes felt no crusader's impulse. "Merely, he desired to use his brain, drive...