Word: waterlooed
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Just as in the spring a housewife's thoughts turn to mothballs, so an old soldier's, with the start of each new war, turn to sentimental memories of his earlier soldiering days. Robert E. Sherwood's Waterloo Bridge brings back to mind those romantic war pictures of the late twenties, employing the same old tricks--the chance meeting in the air raid shelter, the sudden recall to the front, and the false report of the hero's death...
...Waterloo, British officers danced till dawn. Last week, as another no less significant zero hour approached, Germans did equally strange things. Adolf Hitler, as well as Field Marshal Hermann Wilhelm Goring, Dr. Paul Joseph Goebbels, Goring's half-Aryan Air Chief of Staff, Colonel General Erhard Milch, and numerous high Army officers all went to the theatre. Ordinary Germans flocked to the just opened Kurfurstendamm street cafes where young couples enjoyed the privacy of darkness, and oldsters listened to the newest song hit, Woodpecker's Serenade. Foreign correspondents switched off their teletypes and went home to bed. When...
What happened to general transportation was far worse. The "Irish Mail" from Holyhead was announced as "still on its way" 24 hours after the train was due at Waterloo Station. LONDON TRAINS MISSING, SCOTTISH TRAINS LOST screamed newspaper headlines. At Euston Station three trains from the north failed to turn up for more than a day. Two main lines to Scotland did not function for days. Viscount Home, chairman of Great Westtern Railway, and 300 other passengers spent two days and a night in cold, bedless coaches. Up in Scotland 400 travelers were stranded at isolated Crawford, on Beattock Moor...
...Scene truly expressive of a phase of New York life. Like Imperial City, Rice's flashy novel about Manhattan, Two on an Island is slicker than sincere, more lifelike than alive. It's a pretty safe bet in the theatre that, when Boy Meets Girl, Artist Meets Waterloo...
...General Pierre-Jacques-Étienne Cambronne (1770-1842), when called upon to surrender by an English general in the Battle of Waterloo, is supposed to have used a five-letter word (four in English) euphemistically known as le mot de Cambronne...