Word: uniformities
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...last Japanese was captured on Guadalcanal last week. He had been captured twice before, had twice escaped. This time he was ambushed by native constabulary after having been 18 months in the jungle. Though his uniform was in shreds, his feet wrapped in filthy rags, he had not forgotten his manners. He submitted with a reverent bow to the British commandant...
Back into Uniform. Siqueiros next turned up in Los Angeles, where he painted a mural showing a Mexican peon bound to a cross surmounted by an American eagle. He was promptly deported. Then the Spanish civil war broke out, and Siqueiros got back into uniform with something like relief. Fighting still came naturally; he commanded a motorized brigade in the battles of Caballon, Guadalupe and La Granja, and rose to be a division commander just before the end. Back home, he was welcomed at first, then thrown in jail for eight months on suspicion of taking part in the first...
Raincoats and umbrellas blossomed, with H.A.A. programs taking over the rain shedding chore for those lacking in meteorological foresight. The Princeton band appeared in uniform yellow slickers; in direct contrast, the Harvard musicians pulled on assorted raincoats, sweaters and hats-or just sat taking the downpour in silence...
Though little-known in the U.S., François Mauriac ranks as one of France's half-dozen best living novelists. The publishing house of Holt is currently engaged in bringing out a uniform U.S. edition of all his works,* confident that he will shortly be as highly regarded in the U.S. as in his home country. But the forbidding theme of his novels may scare off many U.S. readers: Mauriac dwells in the gloomy fogs and disasters of moral corruption and puts a bleak emphasis on the wages...
...Therese is the second volume in the series; the first was Woman of the Pharisees (TIME, Oct. 21, 1946). Vipers' Tangle, now reissued by Sheed & Ward, will later be included by Holt as part of its uniform edition...