Word: train
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...mission well-intentioned, sincere and technically able. But they cherished an awesome ignorance of the political side of their job. Said a colonel: "Conditions are quite disturbed in northern Greece. You can even get shot at-but perhaps you have heard of it." Said another officer, who is helping train the Greek Army: "I almost never read the news. It might distract me from my work...
...Elda replaced Ina Claire in the road company of The Quaker Girl. The show closed in Buffalo, and as Elda stepped off the milk train in Manhattan, DeWolf Hopper, having just divorced his fourth wife, was waiting on the platform to marry her. From that sensationally popular musical comedy star, Elda acquired a dressing-room knowledge of practically everybody on the stage. She also acquired a son, William DeWolf Jr., and a new first, as well as a new last name. For in their honeymoon days...
...this latest collection of magazine stories, Creatures of Circumstance, his yarns are as well made as ever, and as full of Maugham's slick brand of irony. Readers will find them useful on long train rides; it is possible to read them while thinking of something else and lose nothing of value in the process. Having nothing to write about, Maugham once wrote in answer to his critics, is "the most inconclusive reason for not writing that I've ever heard...
Sofia wired, with Bulgar bravado, that it could not be bothered with the continental recovery program because it had a more important matter in train, to wit: "[Bulgaria] has already begun the realization of her own economic plan...
Noise & Bumps. Besides the natural air hazards (bumpy air currents, bad weather, lack of oxygen at high altitudes), the airplane itself is a menace to health, McFarland thinks. Scientific tests have shown that the modern plane cabin is almost as noisy as a subway train. On a long flight, McFarland reports, noise can increase fatigue, inefficiency and irritability to the danger point. There is no proof, he says, that constant flying permanently deafens airmen, but it does reduce their hearing in the higher frequencies (a deaf spot known as "aviator's notch"). The plane's vibration also...