Word: whited
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...nobody pays attention. Officers in mufti scarcely glance at his tall, lean figure, a trifle stooped; preoccupied clerks with sheaves of papers do not even look up as he goes past. In the Air Corps section on the third floor he waves a hand at flier friends, flashes a white-toothed grin, heads for his office. Hour after hour he sits earnestly in an endless succession of technical conferences, usually breaks the day to lunch with a friend or two at the staid Army & Navy Club. There, too, nobody pays attention...
...Viscount Gort. In full regalia the generals met in London's Victoria Station. Together they toured Sandhurst and Aldershot where Lieut. General Sir John Dill showed off his latest tanks. General Gamelin peeped inside one, did not get in. At the spectacular Aldershot Tattoo, General Gamelin in a white-plumed hat took the salute while tanks, armored cars, caterpillar trucks, motorized antiaircraft units whirled past in the glare of searchlights...
...they paraded by their sweating Führer, many of them fainted. The asphalt on Berlin's Via Triumphalis was so soft that no tanks or cars with caterpillar treads were allowed on the avenue. For the second time Führer Hitler blossomed out in the new white ceremonial jacket which correspondents labeled the "Axis coat," since it first appeared at the signing of the Italian-German alliance...
Maurice Richard Grosser learned to read Homer and hunt squirrel under the tutelage of the late William Robert ("Old Sawney") Webb, white-bearded, tobacco-chewing Confederate veteran, classicist and schoolmaster in Bell Buckle, Tenn. "Old Sawney's" star pupil, Grosser entered Harvard in 1920 with the highest-in-the-U. S. college entrance marks in mathematics and Greek. Of Art he was more innocent than the youngest dauber in a modern progressive school. In 1922, when he was a restless sophomore, a leering classmate urged him to go to an art class in South Boston, because there he might...
...reading himself to sleep. First as a workman in the stained glass factory of famed Charles J. Connick; then on a Harvard fellowship in Italy, where he lived with a peasant family in Anticoli and the goat's milk stuck to his teeth; then employed by Muralists Victor White and Barry Faulkner to put vague decorations on expensive Manhattan walls, Maurice Grosser adjusted himself to his talents. The adjustment was fairly complete by 1929, when in an effort (successful) to stop smoking he went on a five-day binge and got. fired. He started painting for himself...