Word: topflighters
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Quartermaster Corps generally did its prime job: providing the best housing, whatever the cost, in time to shelter emergency soldiers. But the sad and overweighing fact was that the Quartermaster Corps job was not topflight...
Edmund Wilson's ranking among topflight U.S. literary critics will not be bolstered by his new book. But he still writes, as few Americans can, with the dry-wine deftness of a cultivated Frenchman. And his findings are still of value to all serious students of literature...
Clarinetist Pete Davis ' moves out of Manhattan's 46th Street into a series of low-grade dates in Pennsylvania in the early '20s, winds up with a topflight, ill-paid hot outfit in Chicago. His pianist brother Frank sticks to the seaboard; his greater talent and his tameness betray him into the venal successes of the "swing" rage. Between the two of them they cover most of the salient features of jazz and Jazz-living among white musicians. There is some sore stuff on that corrupt necessity, the musician's union, and an interesting passage about...
...outbreak of World War I, sad-eyed Franz Marc became disgusted with human beings, decided to spend the rest of his life painting animals. He painted pink and blue horses prancing in quiet landscapes, garish dogs, tigers, monkeys, cows and deer. Germans regarded him as one of the topflight painters of his period. When Painter Marc was mustered off to war, even his animal world seemed too close to the savage world of reality. From the Western Front he wrote his wife: "Early in my life I found man ugly and animals seemed to me lovelier and purer; but even...
...supply-is the least glorious job in the Army and one of the most necessary, entailing endless complications, endless bookkeeping. Supply officer in the General Staff is friendly, competent Brigadier General Richard Curtis Moore, topflight student at West Point and an engineer officer since he graduated...