Word: visitations
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Said the Navy communique: "The Pacific fleet has returned in Truk the visit made by the Japanese fleet on Dec. 7, 1941, and effected the partial settlement of the debt...
Last week TIME Correspondent John Scott dropped in for a visit, talked long & earnestly with his hosts, polled their opinions .on Germany's future. Unanimously the colonists voted for execution of leading Nazis. Most of them demanded reparations. But a majority voted against dismemberment of German territory, destruction of German heavy industry. These victims of Nazi Germany still believed that there should be a strong postwar Germany, hoped but were not sure that it could be a democratic Germany...
There is a little item in a recent issue of the "New Yorker," easily overlooked, but significant just the same. Seems that a friend of the publication had occasion to visit Boston to see his favorite physician about a case of ulcers. Well, our subject, arriving at South Station, forthwith boarded a cab and was whisked to the Copley. What happened to him in the taxicab need not concern us here. To the ear of the trained Bostonian, however, the combination of "South Station" and "Copley" lacks a certain logical connection...
...have to win them, pester them, and change your attack with every visit. You have to kid and joke. You have got to put serious truths in their own language. You have got to be at their beck and call 24 hours a day and at last one day they may ask you to hear their Confessions. There's no easy job in this chaplain's work. One of my classmates . . . once said that the job of saving souls is like trying to catch snowflakes in a tin cup. It's still tougher in the Army...
Sugar Daddy. In Tulsa, Oklahoma, $10-a-week alimony payer Frank Mosley assembled 1,000 pennies in a bucket of molasses, dug them out again after a visit to the district court...