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Last year Florabel bought control of the wavering Los Angeles City News Service, saw it waver still more when she was unable to staff it with experienced newsgatherers. Last week, tired, ailing, beaten for the first time, she announced she would shut up shop on Armistice Day. Said she: "I was having a talk with my croaker the other day. He says, 'Florabel, your ticker ain't worth a pot in hell-you take it easy.' So I guess I will...
...four little Aimee could name all the Books of the Bible. When other children were playing with dolls and hoops, she was teaching her dog Jip to pray, and preaching to the animals in her father's barnyard. Her faith began to waver as she grew older, and she was almost lost in agnosticism when in 1908 she attended a prayer meeting conducted by a handsome young Pentecostalist preacher named Robert Semple. She married him a few months later. Together they traveled to India and to China, Robert preaching and Aimee playing the piano. In Hong Kong, Robert Semple...
Back to Retreat. By this week the German defense had again begun to waver. The retreat was resumed, in somewhat better order. Seven Allied columns went after them, en route for the next major Allied objectives. One was Ancona, one of the finest ports on the Adriatic, where ships to Dalmatia and Yugoslavia could find good harbor. Another was the Tyrrhenian port of Leghorn, already echoing to German demolition charges...
Nearer and nearer to the fence, and still no command. But did they waver? Not in the least. "My country, right or wrong," and on they went. Latest reports indicate that the casualties were not too severe...
...disinclination to fight simply to preserve and restore democracy in Europe when there is no direct threat to America. When France fell, numbers of students began to see a direct threat to America and in the late spring of 1940 a realignment took place. The isolationist front began to waver...