Word: tablecloth
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...coast of France: what happened in the poppy fields and in the ancient towns of Normandy was the first concern of all, by night & day. But the people's look at the war went farther, far beyond Normandy. For months the U.S., as a nation of tablecloth strategists, had been preoccupied with the coming of Dday. But as soon as it had happened, "Second Front" at once became as archaic a phrase as "defense bonds." For the invasion of France made not a Second but a Seventh Front...
...raised on the Tribune. My first paddling was with a rolled-up Tribune. On picnics in Lincoln Park it was our tablecloth...
...they owed their country their lives and $610 travel expenses each. On Oct. 19, in the Portuguese-Indian harbor of Mormugão, they moved from the dreary Japanese freighter Teia Marti to the Gripsholm's marvels of tablecloth, roast turkey and freedom. In the opposite direction marched 1,330 Japanese repatriates, straight from U.S. camps, healthy-looking, well-dressed...
...Netherlands, Belgium. In Rio de Janeiro, Brazil's President Getulio Vargas celebrated May Day by treating Good-Will Tourist Douglas Fairbanks Jr. to a 9? lunch at a workers' restaurant. While they ate, loudspeakers blared Emily Post slogans. Sample: "Don't wipe your mouth on the tablecloth; use a paper napkin." Goodwillman Fairbanks was lionized by Rio society, cheered by 50,000 football fans. Asked by newspapermen why Hollywood presents so distorted a view of Latin-American life (see p. 34), quick-witted Actor Fairbanks replied that Hollywood often presented a pretty distorted picture of U.S. life...
Last week a statistical novice, buxom Columnist Dorothy Thompson, told her 7,500,000 readers that the experts were screwloose. Speaking through her mythical breakfast companion The Grouse (grouch), who quarrels with her for being stupid and writes on the tablecloth,*Miss Thompson proved to her own satisfaction that not nine nor ten nor twelve million, but only two million were unemployed...