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...brass-buttoned, forest-green tanker's uniform, which he designed, and which made the Second Division nicknamed him Flash Gordon...
...Well, the first thing the Anglo-American Governments should do is to send the right kind of diplomats and businessmen to these countries, men who can speak Spanish and Portuguese not only fairly well but without an offensive accent. The U.S. and Great Britain have plenty of money to flash in the faces of the South Americans, but money or no money, they are constantly making themselves disliked by their arrogant and aggressive and superior attitude and also they unconsciously insult all the South Americans by their stupid rendition of the language. The behavior of the American men and women...
...grim reminders of the tragic significance of the war for Britain, not one is without its leavening of dry humor. There is a lift to the way a Dover anti-aircraftman dismisses the daily shelling by Nazi big guns across the Channel. Says he: "Aye, we see a flash, count 60, and there...
...mine traps; and finally 200 yards of no man's land. Beyond were the Japanese lines-barbed wire, solidly barricaded trenches, concrete emplacements. The whole scene was intimately still-so still that the coolie could hear bees buzzing in the fields; except every few minutes when a flash and a roar came from the Japanese rear. This was Japanese artillery...
...Pope had intended to bring Rerum Novarum up to date in an encyclical of his own. Instead, he decided to speak directly by radio to that "worldwide Catholic meeting" made possible by "this most expedite bridge which the inventive genius of our age throws across the ether in a flash." The Pope declared his purpose "to give some further directive moral principles and three fundamental values of social and economic life: the use of material goods, labor, and the family." He gave them in a series of powerful assertions...