Word: straws
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Last Straw." Ship's-Boat Leader R. Brett rowed from his ship to the beaches, found to his surprise "a causeway about eight feet wide heading out into the water." This "causeway" soon turned out to be "a perfectly ordered straight column of men about six abreast . . . When I reached them, a sergeant stepped up to me and said, 'Yes, sir. Sixty men, sir?' He then walked along the column, which remained in perfect formation, and detailed the required number...
...could not help them . . . 'Stop shouting and save your breath, and bail out with your steel helmets,' was the only command suitable for the occasion." At last Shamrock was put out of action, and her load shifted to another ship. Skipper Barrell reported: "This was the last straw, having to leave my vessel which constituted my life savings ... I sat down beneath a gun with my hands over my face and prayed...
...epic of Edwardian chivalry-even Socialists could be sentimental about the old days. They voted Anne Whates, a dark, buxom history student at Lady Margaret Hall, the girl for whom they would most willingly jump into the river. One day last week, dressed for her part in a straw boater and a Japanese sunshade, the new Zuleika was punted downstream in a chilling rain. Of the 100 voters, only nine braved the river, but three jumped with such abandon that Zuleika beckoned for an encore. (Said she: ''My heart bleeds for those unfortunate men, but . . .") Crying "The Lady...
...54th lap, his Ferrari skidded out of control. In the stands by the waterfront, Monte Carlo's glossy postwar idlers gasped and screamed. Igor's auto spun crazily and came to rest, backside-forward against a pile of straw. Slowly, with compressed lips, the prince emerged from his wrecked car, walked with dignity into the bar of the Hotel de Paris and was not seen again...
...result of a straw vote taken at Monday night's meeting, Charles W. Detjen '50 and Lawrence F. O'Donnell '49 will seek out University Library Director Keyes DeW. Metcalf and tell him that the Council "looks favorably on Radcliffe use of the Lamont Library...