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...inviting you to a duck dinner," a gluttonous comic-strip character named J. Wellington Wimpy used to say. "You bring the duck...
...career told the modern history of cavalry. After West Point ('32), he started out on horseback, had switched to tanks by World War II; last year at Fort Rucker, he took over the whirring, still-experimental cavalry of the sky. The general loved his "choppers," once said: "Like Wellington's cavalry, the helicopter can strike like a wolfpack and bite. It can slice and run, pull back and hit the other side. A chopper can be as low as a man on a horse...
Said Research Director Edmund Mennis of Philadelphia's Wellington Fund: "The industries hardest hit by the 1958 recession (autos, textiles, steels, chemicals, metals, machinery and rubber) are expected to have the sharpest recovery...
...Neill's hero is Con Melody, an Irish officer of peasant birth who served under Wellington in the Peninsular War and is now an impoverished innkeeper and his own taproom's steadiest customer. Under the influence of booze and Byronism, he lives inside a gilded dream, that fools no one, of being a fine-born gentleman. He rides a thoroughbred mare while making his daughter a slavey; he sneers at the Yankees as vulgar traders while owing them money and enjoying none of their trade. His fiery daughter Sara, has a wellborn young American in tow, and when...
Sack Bencher. In Wellington, N.Z., during a late session of Parliament, Chairman of Committees Reginald Keeling rebuked Opposition Member Dean Eyre, said: "Will the honorable member please speak more quietly, for some members are sleeping...