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...free Americans is one of hundreds in this fascinating 418-page "Historical Account of Place-Naming in the United States" by George R. Stewart (Bret Harte, TIME, Dec. 21. 1931 ; Storm, TIME, Dec. 1, 1941). Its 2,000-odd place names run from Adam-and-Eve Alley to Zigzag...
...escape moving to the suburbs [of Larchmont, Glen Cove and Scarsdale] in his life, he was nevertheless very likely to end up finally in [a cemetery ] named Oakmont or Woodland." And where Sir Walter failed, estate agents of the boom 1920s often succeeded. The town of Mosquito became Troutdale, Zigzag switched to Rhododendron, Screamerville to Chancellor, Bee Pee to the more progressive Chevrolet. Recently named post offices include XRay, Radio, Gasoline, Tarzan, Gene Autry...
...zigzag ditch about 25 feet long there were 56 Jap bodies. They were stacked four deep at some points. Many were laid open by the shell blasts and the blood of most of them had not yet started to congeal...
...present we have some announced ideals, but have not been using them. The Four Freedoms and the Atlantic Charter were apparently campaign oratory. Our zigzag diplomacy has not even been a success by Machiavellian standards, with the French, the Italians, and the Jugoslavs. I recognize the awful difficulties that confront our leaders, but I believe that for our policies to win friends and influence people, we need to preach better, and practice more, and to pray harder. I think a just peace can be made to satisfy both the spiritual and the material needs of our country...
Many people looking at your excellent picture of the much-bombed Focke-Wulf plant (TIME, Nov. 1) may pause to wonder. Notice that the bomb craters appear as small round mounds of earth and the W-shaped blast walls appear as zigzag trenches...