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...building, something went wrong with the brew. A small explosion made employes in the other 49 buildings take alarm. Flames shot from the windows of the recovery house. Before men could let go their held breath, 200,000 pounds of smokeless powder went up in a hell's delight of flame and thunder...
After 58 years in the theatre, bald, aging William A. Brady still takes a small boy's delight in beating fellow producers to the boards with the season's first play. Last week Producer Brady managed to squeeze through a winner by offering a Broadway revival of five-year-old Kind Lady...
...training, for extra pilots baled out of many planes brought down. Lest their morale be affected by repeated rebuffs from the defense rings around London, watchful agents of the Gestapo rode in many of the Luftwaffe's formations. R. A. F. called them "German governesses" and took special delight when they were shot down...
...occasion for last week's stirrings was the new collaboration in defense with the U. S. arranged at Ogdensburg, N. Y. by Franklin Roosevelt and Canada's Prime Minister William Lyon Mackenzie King. The arrangement itself was greeted in Canada with delight. Canadians like the U. S. They have to: The Dominion of Canada is vast but inhabited Canada amounts to a corridor, nowhere much wider than 200 miles, which lies snug against 3,000 miles of U. S. border...
Doubtless there were other reasons. Critic DeVoto is possessed of a healthy combativeness. A professional Westerner (he was born in Utah), he takes a deep delight in curdling the blood of literary opponents with a Comanche yawp before rushing in for the kill. He is deeply, sincerely, authentically American: he always seems to be threatening to clinch a literary judgment in the name of the Great Jehovah and the Continental Congress. The literary situation which Critic DeVoto found in the East was calculated to exacerbate his deepest instincts, habits of thought and affection. With a loud roar of rage...