Word: draft
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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Inactive in peace time, it consists entirely of reserve officers grouped into regiments which contain no private soldiers, nothing' but officers. These skeleton regiments will be filled out by volunteers and by the draft in the event...
Evans' Richard is still his best role-far better than his too-muscular Hamlet (whom Evans makes into more of a Great Dane than a melancholy one), far better suited to his talents than his not-deeply-stained-enough Falstaff. "A rough draft of Hamlet," Richard has been called; and though the vain, foppish English king lacks the charm and nobility of the Danish prince, both love words and fear action, both procrastinate, both are full of self-pity and self-mockery...
...that Janet Planner soon liked so well that she gave up cocktails, developed a working method as scholarly as a Ph.D.'s. Her letters were laid out a week in advance, researched by herself and an informal staff of friends, checked thoroughly, painfully polished in draft after draft. Among her best friends were (and are) Margaret Anderson and Jane Heap, publishers of the once-famed Little Review in Greenwich Village. Last Christmas she spent with her mother and her sister, Poet Hildegarde Planner, at Altadena, Calif. Last week she stopped in Manhattan on her way back to Paris...
...answering the poll did not approve of allowing American materials to be sold to any country at war, they went on record as approving legislation making them available to the so-called democratic countries, 54.3 per cent wanted the Constitution changed to require a national vote before Congress could draft men for overseas service...
...Houston Hall, headquarters of a mythical military commission, 20-odd boys reported to register for the "draft...