Word: spells
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Institute of Radio Engineers was closeted to discuss military secrets. President W. L. Everitt leaned forward with a conspirator's expression and solemnly announced: "Gentlemen, the Army & Navy have now finally given , permission to use the word radar - provided you spell it backwards." Washington has been grinning over this story for weeks. For censorship officers, the story has a double sting: they are well aware that radar has been one of the worst-kept secrets of the war. A favorite gag pictures a mother remarking to her husband: "John, don't you think we ought to tell Junior...
...twelfth of his line to go there), proceeded comfortably through Sandhurst, then, like his father before him, joined the Black Watch Regiment, in which he was a kilted second lieutenant. As a subaltern he saw the tail-end of the Boer War. Later Wavell returned to India for a spell of soldiering, pigsticking, horse racing, and Kiplingesque social doings at Peshawar...
Scott Fitzgerald was barely 20, fresh from Princeton and a brief spell in uniform, when he saw "the unexpended nervous energy of the war years exploded [into] an age of miracles ... an age of art ... an age of excess." Suddenly, spontaneously, the Jazz Age had begun. "Life was like the race in Alice in Wonderland, there was a prize for everyone...
...stunt is jut-jawed Editor John W. McPherrin, whose theory is that the corner druggist is, or should be, the "neighborhood statesman." He persuaded such traveling salesmen of ideas as Eric Johnston, Maury Maverick, Vincent Sheean and William L. Shirer to write the global think pieces in sixth-grade spell-it-out fashion. Altogether, it was a strange posset for American Druggist's publisher to push over the counter. The publisher: William Randolph Hearst...
Shear Sucker. At Bryants Pond, Me., Farmer Claude Cushman, who had sheared his flock during a warm spell, had to run around to the neighbors when the temperature dropped again, collect all cast-off sweaters that he could find for his shivering sheep...