Word: spruceness
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...Since the fighting services of all nations are apt to regard men of the sword as an elite caste apart, no amount of fulmination against Germany last week made life any the less pleasant for Lieutenant von Wick. This spruce young German officer lately crossed the Channel for training with the 2nd Battalion of King George's swank Grenadier Guards, a British officer being "exchanged" to Germany at the same time for study with Adolf Hitler's military elite...
Definitely convalescent last week was the Lord Privy Seal, spruce young Captain Anthony Eden, who was put to bed with "heart strain" after his round of diplomatic fencing bouts with Hitler, Stalin and Pilsudski (TIME, April 1 et seq.). Chirped a glib, anonymous political correspondent of Lord Beaverbrook's Daily Express: "They refer to 'heart strain'. . . . The actual trouble, I understand, is thrombosis" [clogging of an artery...
Last week as seamy-faced Sir Herbert faced his annual stockholders' meeting & ordeal, up popped that spruce iron tycoon, the Earl of Dudley, to chirp: "Stockholders, I appeal to you to protect your Chairman against sniping. The sooner the Government and everyone else realizes that Vickers is a business and not a philanthropic institution the better...
...vaulting career began when he pulled a cedar rail off a farmer's fence near his Idaho home, whittled it into a vaulting pole. At Yale, in 1907, he discovered the fact that bamboo poles had more spring, less chance of breaking off in a point than spruce. He became the first man to clear the alarming height of 13 ft. (unofficially). When he returned from the Olympic Games in London, Vaulter Gilbert brought back 50 bamboo poles which cost $1.25 each and sold them for $25 each. After this venture he went into the magic business, manufacturing sets...
...cabled that it would be pleased to do so. When Endeavour arrives at Bristol this week, the Herreshoff workers will doubtless be as much surprised by her as they were by her owner. Endeavour, hydrangea blue above water, bronze below, is made entirely of steel except for a silver-spruce boom and a mahogany rudder. On a panel ahead of her helmsman, is a full set of airplane navigating