Word: wellington
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...brightened up "The Editor's Drawer" of Harper's Monthly, ran Harper's Weekly until Colonel George Harvey crowded him out. He set a whole generation's style of tame, facile humor, in which the cheerful shades of the great pseudophilosophized and gagged politely (sample: Wellington pulls a campstool from under Napoleon). His House Boat on the Styx became a best-seller and was credited with having relieved the U.S. reading public of its fear of hell...
...Irish famine as a pretext to repeal the Corn Laws (which limited food imports). This, says Chemist Large, was "perhaps the most significant single event in the history of the British Empire." Reason: it inaugurated Free Trade and the Empire's Golden Age. Groused the Duke of Wellington: "Rotten potatoes have done...
President of Allis-Chalmers is stocky, hooknosed, fussy Max Wellington Babb, who was named last week as a contributor to the isolationist America First Committee. Said he: "I am thoroughly in accord with the principles of the America First Committee." The Committee opposed the Lend-Lease Bill, has opposed the transfer of war supplies to Britain, recently received a pat on the back in a radio broadcast from Berlin. Last week, fast-talking Mr. Christoffel and owlish, wealthy Mr. Babb glared at each other over the thicket of their differences. Thorniest was the issue of the closed shop...
Patter Songs from Gilbert & Sullivan (Nelson Eddy, baritone, with chorus and orchestra conducted by Robert Armbruster; Columbia: 6 sides; $2.75). Baritone Eddy's fans-but not Savoyards-will forgive his rather apologetic, Yankeefied impersonations of the Mikado, Jack Point, the Lord Chancellor, John Wellington Wells, Major General Stanley, First Lord of the Admiralty Sir Joseph Porter, K.C.B. The last one sounds like an odd, unconscious parody of President Roosevelt speechmaking...
...thing, the communiqué announcing the raid did not specify what type of bomber was used. The latest Vickers-Armstrong Wellington bombers claim an effective range of 2,000 miles, with 2,500 pounds of bombs, but if they actually can make such a range, it is curious that they have not been used on missions to Austria, whither many of Germany's war industries have been moved. This raid may have been pulled off by U. S. Flying Fortresses...