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...Most of your circle of men friends have gone. Gas rationing makes it a little hard to get around, but you manage. The shortage of domestic help is dire. Prices are high, but nothing compared to what the French and Italians charge us over here...
...Stockings: "They are dire. They have colossal seams. . . . Do they expect us to grow utility grooves...
...TIME, Sept. 13), a few days after the 76-year-old Patriarch had been enthroned in his jampacked Cathedral with Ritualistic pomp not seen in Russia since the Bolshevik revolution. Following his enthronement, the Metropolitan blessed the Soviet Government (whose members, like all Communists, are atheists), and invoked the dire penalty of excommunication on Orthodox priests and laity anywhere in the world who by cooperating with the Nazis have been guilty of "Judas treason." In London, meanwhile, the Archbishop of Canterbury, was "most happy" over the renewed relations between the Church of England and the Russian Church, hoped the Russians...
...story, which manages to be popular and literate at the same time, tells of the efforts of a gallant old lady of reduced means (Grace George) to fight the local political octopus (Edward McNamara) through her newspaper. It also reports the help she gets, in dire extremity, from a hobo ex-journalist (James Gagney). En-route to victory the hobo develops an interest in the old lady's niece (Marjorie Lord), makes a useful friend of the whooping, plume-clad matron of the local sin hall (Marjorie Main), and punches his way through enough physical obstruction to appease those...
...fate of Italy . . . may serve as a lesson to us all, in the hours of gravest crisis and most dire distress, never to forsake the commandment of national honor but to stand loyally by our allies and loyally by our hearts-full of faith, to do what duty demands...