Word: facing
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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Thank you for your portrait of a man under "Free Speech, Hell!" in July 22 issue. The face of Al Williams is the traditional American face, strong, clean, purposeful...
...career of Al Williams as you outline it goes well with the face. If America is to preserve what men of Al Williams' stamp fought and died for in '76, 1812, '61 and in 1918, more of our other men will have to become a little defiant, a little harsh, a little less inclined to seek the easiest way. The entire country would be a lot better off if every individual read your bit on Williams...
...Yarnell, Commander in Chief of the Asiatic Fleet from 1936 until he reached the retirement age of 64 last year, and Admiral William Standley, Chief of Naval Operations from 1933 to 1937. Said Admiral Yarnell at a White Committee rally at Boston: "If Britain loses the war, we will face years of danger, with our nation converted into a huge armed camp...
...Poor observation and wishful thinking probably have at times padded R. A. F. reports of Germans downed. Probably the British also withheld part of their own losses (planes destroyed on the ground, etc.). But German reports day after day of lopsided air victories seemed incredible in the face of agreement among neutral military observers that the British planes were better, British pilots better trained...
Rumer Godden is an Englishwoman who lives in India. Last year her Black Narcissus (TIME, July 17, 1939) spun out the struggling efforts of a group of Anglican nuns to do good against the handicaps of their new convent (a quondam seraglio) and the tremendous face of Kinchinjunga which confronted their small and gentle souls. Reviewers' adjective for Black Narcissus was "enchanting." It will do for Gypsy, Gypsy...