Word: sternly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...hail of machine-gun fire and antiaircraft, and dive-bombed a remaining French warship which apparently had been shelling some of the American forces some distance from the town. The dive-bomb attacks evidently finished her. Some days later I saw her from a distance, down by the stern with a list. The evening of Nov. 10 was an anxious one, for while we had no really definite news it was perfectly clear that the Americans were closing in on the town. And with the obvious folly the French had already shown in the earlier operations, I wasn...
...streaked back to Guadalcanal. A half-hour later six Army Flying Fortresses swung over the channel. From a tight, high-level formation they straddle-bombed the ship, scored two square hits. The battleship turned 45 degrees, headed north. Suddenly a magazine let loose. Fire leaped from bow to stern. The ship stopped dead. For hours the calm South Pacific sky and sea were lighted by flames until at midnight the battleship sank...
...John Parsons O'Donnell, Washington bureau chief of the anti-New Deal New York Daily News, a Philadelphia jury last week made one of the biggest libel awards of recent years: $50,000. Loser was the Philadelphia Record and its publisher, J. David Stern...
...Navy denials, that U.S. warships actually were convoying British vessels long before the U.S. went actively to war. O'Donnell testified that seven Senators and Representative Sol Bloom had told him so. O'Donnell's attorney, former G.O.P. National Chairman John D. M. Hamilton, questioned Publisher Stern...
Scene: The music room in the palatial villa of Mrs. Lafcadio Mifflin at Newport. Mrs. Mifflin, a majestic woman in a slim-pin Bemberg corselet well boned over the diaphragm (Stern Brothers, fourth floor), is seated at the console of her Wurlitzer, softly wurlitzing to herself. Mr. Mifflin, in a porous-knit union suit from Franklin Simon's street floor, is stretched out by the fire like a great, tawny cat. Inasmuch as there is a great, tawny cat stretched out alongside him, also wearing a porous-knit union suit, it is not immediately apparent which is Mifflin...