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...wishes to correspond with widow who owns a modern Foster, thrasher; object matrimony; send photograph of machine." Hooping Cough. In Kingston, R.I.,the Rhode Island State basketball team prepared for its game in Manhattan's Madison Square Garden, where smoking is permitted, by practicing with smudge pots of stale tobacco on the sidelines...
...built low into the bulldozed hillside to afford maximum protection from Jap mortar and artillery fire. It consisted of two long dark green tents plus two operating rooms about 10 by 20 ft. which the Japs had built as concrete rainwater cisterns. The air inside was stuffy with stale cigaret smoke mingled with the smells of dirt and blood and sweat. But the rawboned Division surgeon, Commander Richard Silvis, was very proud of his operating rooms...
Lieut. General William Simpson's Ninth Army was so fresh and fit that it was almost going stale. Its front was jam-packed with men and supplies. Every day the Germans were strengthening the maze of defenses between the Roer and the Rhine. The Russians were waiting. Eisen hower could not wait any longer...
...pretentiousness by Karig's humor. Marvin Lang has all the characteristics of Babbitt. He is smug, ambitious, self-righteous, calculating. Unlike Babbitt, he has a mean streak, especially in his relations with women. His life is actually harsher than Babbitt's was. But his enjoyment of his stale jokes is genuine; his faith in his secondhand opinions is profound; his comic-strip adventures with girls and jobs are funny...
...first draft are his wild hero worship of Ibsen ("Ibsen has the temper of an archangel"), his fierce denunciations of things Irish ("I don't think the Irish peasant represents a very admirable type of culture"), the "plague of Catholicism," and the Jesuits ("He spurned before him the stale maxims of the Jesuits and . . . swore an oath that they should never establish over him an ascendancy...