Word: said
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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That was about all Louella's story had to say. The news, she said, came "straight from Rome," the latest scene of Ingrid's celebrated romantic entanglement with 43-year-old Italian Director Roberto (Open City) Rossellini, for whom she had renounced her husband and her career...
...Said Board Secretary A. T. L. Watkins: ". . . There are too many scenes of torture and novel means of killing . . . One or two blows in a fight should be sufficient. When it comes to a man's hands being held behind his back while his face is smashed to pulp, we draw the line...
During its four months on Guadalcanal the division was almost written off several times. When asked whether the hard-pressed leathernecks could hold the first beachhead in the Pacific war, Navy Secretary Knox said: "I don't want to make any predictions, but every man out there, ashore or afloat, will give a good account of himself." When this word came to Guadalcanal one sergeant mused: "Ya know, they're kicking up a stink about us back in the States." Said a private first class: "That's nice...
...Douglas MacArthur said...
...Army came and so did the best thing that ever happened to the division: a long rest in Australia, where people get false teeth early. Australian girls couldn't believe the marines' molars were their own. "Finally, this babe with me reached over," said one marine, "and took hold of my teeth and tried to yank 'em and I let her. She was sure surprised when nothing gave." Before the division left Melbourne most of the men "were in some stage of a serious love affair with an Australian girl...