Word: texans
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...gallery was crowded. In the front row, leaning over the rail, was Britain's cadaverous Ambassador, Lord Halifax, one hand cupped to his good ear. Over & over again, Texan Tom Connally, who had snorted interventionist fire in the Senate before the war, now breathed peace. Said he: "Peace can be preserved. . . . We leagued our armed might for war. Now let us league our moral and material might for peace...
Archibald MacLeish, now an Assistant Secretary of State, was succeeded as Librarian of Congress by a professor-librarian with whom the poet had sometimes clashed: Acting Librarian Dr. Luther Harris Evans, a 42-year-old Texan...
...narration, a high-mettled, professionally military prose, delivered with quiet irony, is repeatedly given life and reso nance by images which show what "heavy seasonal rains" look and feel like to get a truck through, what Texan "elements" in a regiment are as people, something of what eleven hundred "replacements" mean in terms of death and survival...
...TEXAN IN ENGLAND - J. Frank Dobie -Little, Brown...
Secret of Contentment. In a prosperous riverside pub, The Anchor, Texan Dobie spent many hours "when darkness came early," swapping countryside legend and philosophy. There he would find at a corner table cronies like Horner, who ran away to sea at the age of 13, inveighing bitterly against politicians, against women "because they spend their lives making men think that unessential things, like furniture, napkins, sheets and silver plate, are essential," or "the blasted superficiality and bogus pretence of education." There were also the medico from a High land regiment with his Cornish remedy for colds ("Hang a boot over...