Word: stricting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Shut the Door. Navy exams, as described by Lieut. Herbert I. Harris of the Newport Training Station, are equally strict. Recruits come before the psychiatrist when they are worn out from physical tests, completely naked, identified only by a mercurochrome number on their chests. To a tired, jittery "boot," a session with the psychiatrist is like walking the plank. Wary examiners, said Lieut. Harris, are suspicious of boys who speak up first (normal boys are silent until the doctor questions them), those who fail to close the door, or fling down their papers on the table. But regional differences, said...
About a week after the Pearl Harbor incident, a group of Honolulu Community Theater veterans assembled to get the play in shape. Dramatic careers being strictly extra curricular in Hawaii, the cast includes several university professors, a protege of Martha Graham, and even a couple of censors. . . . Nightly rehearsals were held in a windowless prop room, and because of the strict blackout and curfew orders, special passes had to be issued to get the actors through a line of itchy-fingered sentries each night...
...G.O.P. nomination, Tom Dewey already had enough delegates lined up. But over the party, like a huge, good-tempered but strict schoolmaster, hovered tousled Wendell Willkie. No Republican candidate could well carry on without Willkie's help, and Willkie was plainly against Tom Dewey, who has a wavering record on foreign-affairs issues, and has not yet declared himself flatly on post-war U.S. policy...
Quaker Girl. Author Chase is the end-product of a long line of Quakers. Among them was famed Quaker Author John Woolman, but Ilka prefers her great-grandmother, who was "something of a glamor girl." During the Civil War, Great-grandmother ran away from her children and husband (a strict Abolitionist) and married a Southern doctor. She raised him a family in Florida, and when he died, returned to remarry Great-grandfather. "This," says Author Chase, "seems to me nice going at any time, but in that day and age a truly remarkable feat." Great-grandmother died, age 92, from...
...Aldous Huxley says: 'Every dog thinks its master Napoleon, hence the popularity of dogs.' That is not the strict truth. Every dog adores its master notwithstanding the master's imperfections of which it is probably acutely aware...