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...mission no longer seemed stale. Pursuits were in sight early-too early. But nothing happened. Bombardier Miller never raised his head from Singing Guns...
Wives and mothers may rejoice at the poll popularity of homemade cookies and other eats, but the unfeeling Navy Department puts in: "Stale or mashed cakes, cookies reduced to crumbs and spoiled fruit do not make for a Merry Christmas for boys overseas." Instead, Mother should send a sewing kit (in Army & Navy sonny wants it). The Navy likes overnight bags...
Then the Navy Department put out what looked like big, spot news: an anonymous naval officer had taken full command of all units in the Aleutians. But next day a Navy spokesman at Seattle said this was stale stuff, that a Naval officer had been in command since before the Japanese struck...
There he sat at table with a broken-down laboratory assistant, a lavender college student, a mousy-genteel kleptomaniac widow, a moth-eaten elocutionist, a stale bibliophile who dismissed all ideas with "forgive my sense of humor"—a gallery which should convince almost everybody that Wells, like Dickens, is no caricaturist of English life but a dispenser of literal and horrifying truth. And there Teddy ran foul of two "overripe virgins," bleached Miss Blame and malapropist Miss Birkenhead, who once spent six months in Paris, calls her Paris sugar daddy her faux...
...fighting, and the men who, for religious reasons, are not fighting. . . . On the American front right now a deadly war is being waged between the forces of Fascism, who would suppress our civil liberties, and the forces of democracy and tolerance. All the jingoism and the stale hatemongering of our leaders since Pearl Harbor has sickened me; seldom have I heard a vital statement, a clear, enlightened pronouncement, recognizing that the rights of minorities are the very things we fight for, and if we deny them what excuse have we to fight? Instead of admitting the strength of pacifists...