Word: visitations
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...notable talent of previous R.A.F. commanders in the Middle East. Air Vice Marshal Coningham speaks French, German and Italian. He is widely traveled and knows Italy well; he refers to his bombings of Naples as his "slum-clearance project." Of the Germans, whose country he used to visit annually, he says: "They know war from A to about Y. They don't know...
...plane he was demonstrating for Charles Lindbergh, during the latter's visit to Germany in 1936, fell apart in the air. Udet parachuted to safety. In an Alpine circuit race he fouled his propeller in a 30,000-volt trolley wire. The plane lost its tail and Udet got a scratch...
...glad to see you taking an interest in the controversy over the Philadelphia "water(?)" and its odor. But if Mr. Roosevelt thought it smelled bad 24 years ago he should visit the city...
...Frenchman General Charles de Gaulle. His resignation or his surrender to the collaborationists would probably precipitate internal troubles and give the Germans an excuse to intervene to preserve order. It was significant that reports from Vichy included the statement: "There is no indication as to the duration of his visit-or the date of his return to Algiers...
...starts off with a frivolous seance that backfires by conjuring up a man's beautiful, mischievous late wife, who floats spectrally through his household, splashing delicate poison on his second marriage. Since the daffy medium who contrived the lady's visit lacks the power to terminate it, in no time things are dramatically at sixes and sevens, though artistically neat as a pin. For Playwright Coward, standing at the juncture of three yawning precipices, nimbly keeps his balance. He makes his preposterous menage seem entirely natural. He maintains so light a touch that Death, far from being morbid...