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Perhaps Lord Louis can be shown. When he is, the Imperial General Staff and the British Government are likely to be convinced. Then, behind the massive air assaults which the R.A.F. reopened and stepped up last week, U.S. and British troops will move into Europe. When that day of wrath comes, Lord Louis' terrible boys in blackface, the men of the Commandos, will be there to help undertake the first daring assault...
...supposed to be about juke girls.* It turns the picture into a cross-country road race, with itinerant laborers hurrying their cars to the Florida fruit and vegetable country, packers hurrying their picked produce to market, etc., etc. The result is a kind of minor East Coast Grapes of Wrath...
Suddenly the rippling, six weeks old muscles tensed--Vag stiffened, his eyes bulged. "Wha ... wha ... what!!!" he stammered, a look of horrified amazement wringing his face. He lunged for the paper, oblivious of the soup in his path and the wrath of its owner who could imagine even more pleasant things that delicious minestrone in his lap. But the gushing curses faded into an incredulous stare. The Vagabond was breathing heavily--"inhale, exhale." "It's unfair," he murmured, the paper already a twisted shred. "It's inhuman," he howled, glaring with bloodshot eyes at his awestruck companion...
Mild, shy Henry Wallace, who never rants, never gets in any of the brawls of Washington, was roused to a cold fury. Object of his wrath: Martin Dies...
...occasion of Morrison's wrath was an innocuous-looking cartoon whose bite was in its caption, "The price of petrol has been increased by one penny" (implying that British seamen were risking their lives to fatten the big corporations). As supporting evidence for his charge, Morrison quoted a paragraph from a Mirror editorial: "The accepted tip for Army leadership would, in plain words, be this: All who aspire to mislead the other in war should be brass-buttoned boneheads, socially prejudiced, arrogant and fussy. A tendency to heart disease, apoplexy, diabetes and high blood pressure is desirable...