Word: worn
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...surprise; it was a shoeful of irritation to the hop-skipping Jap, to whom the total conquest of New Guinea is becoming increasingly difficult. Ever since he landed at Buna on the north shore July 22, he has been trying to get at Port Moresby. His land forces have worn themselves out on New Guinea's sharp-humped backbone. Now a sweep around the seacoast had been wrecked...
...true. He who had worn black for anarchists hanged after the Haymarket riots,* and who chiefly wrote of simple peasant lives, had ranged himself beside the Gestapo. To the big, white country house which success had brought him, after harsh years of poverty, winds bring the cool fragrance of sea and kelp, of grass and Norwegian earth. Outside the maples whisper. But in the house, now crammed with a painful store of books, the man who always loved solitude had won it, at last, in bitter measure...
This harmless charade has a certain honky-tonk charm for which those who liked Damon Runyon's Butch Minds the Baby will be warmly prepared. The talk is the patented Runyon brand of Times Square Swahili, in which a worn-out race horse is "practically mucilage," and marriage is described as "one room, two chins, three kids." There is the usual Runyon corps de ballet of ham-hearted grifters, heisters and passers, played by a friendly crowd of veterans from Hollywood (Eugene Pallette, Louise Beavers) and Broadway (Sam Levene, Millard Mitchell). Carefully solemn Henry Fonda has the dignity...
...Washington watched and waited; at week's end began to wonder. At Donald Nelson's Saturday press conference, much of his anger seemed to have worn off. Asked a reporter: "You still mad, Don?" Nelson's surprised eyebrows lifted a notch...
Politics-as-usual has invaded the college front. A long and imposing title has served only to trip Purdue President Elliott's committee into the bog of bureaucratic compromise, for the report just presented to the War Manpower Commission only repeats last year's worn generalities with a promise of better things to come. Designed to hurt no feelings, the report is remiss largely in what it omits. Even as a sketchy outline for more specific blueprints, McNutt's ten point program fails to strike at most of the basic evils in the current college muddle...