Word: barracks
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...climax of the A. T. A.'s 35 sectional and State tournaments. To watch them came Negro tennis fans from nearly every State in the union. The tony ones stayed at cozy Holly Tree Inn. But most of the spectators as well as the players bunked in the barrack-like dormitories on the campus. For five days they watched the tennis and for five nights they fraternized: a get-together reception, a watermelon feast, a moonlight sail, moving pictures and a climactic Grand Ball...
...anger he is cold and biting, but he never explodes in barrack bluster. A sure way to anger George Marshall is to ask him to change his mind when he has once made it up. No fretter, he can be so blunt as to offend strangers who mistake his abrupt decisiveness for insult. Yet his colleagues account him a warm and friendly fellow...
...within 95 miles of the Polish Corridor; to Hamburg, in the northwest corner of the Reich; to Saarbrücken on the French frontier; to Munich in the south and Vienna in the southeast. As Herr Hitler was opening the Auto Show, 300,000 workmen were resting in 218 barrack towns for the next day of digging, blasting and concrete-pouring on Autobahnen in every quarter of the Reich, even in East Prussia, on the other side of the Polish Corridor...
...third omniscient remained in the bare, concrete barrack on Washington's Constitution Avenue where naval command is centred. To Navy men, Admiral William Daniel Leahy is the Navy. As Chief of Naval Operations, he is a one-man counterpart of the Army's General Staff, wielding a vast authority vested in his office by cumulative custom rather than by statute. To that grey and modest gentleman, who normally retires next June, the most important man in the U. S. Navy is Franklin Roosevelt. Because the President has made it so, an important area in the Navy...
...eight years Picasso and Fernande lived in Montmartre in the famous "bateau lavoir" (floating laundry) at 13 Rue Ravignan (now Place Emile Goudeau), a fantastic barrack tenanted by painters, sculptors, writers, cartoonists, laundresses and pushcart peddlers. Picasso was Spanishly jealous of his 18-year-old mistress-though he was grateful enough that the ogling coal dealer neglected to leave a bill. To keep her at home he did the marketing himself, dressed in the cap, espadrilles and blue jeans of a workman, plus a famous white-polka-dotted red shirt that cost him less than two francs. The mystic poet...