Word: greets
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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Last week, Hollywood brayed happily as it contemplated its first assignment in the colossal epic of national defense. Announced by the War Department was a $200,000 allotment for Hollywood-made training films-ten-minute shorts to educate doughboys on how to greet an officer, how to don a gas mask, how to load a howitzer, other essentials of soldiering. Picking up its cue like a trooper, the industry called out its restless, time-marking, six-month-old Motion Picture Defense Committee, headed by Paramount Vice President Y. Frank Freeman...
...Poughkeepsie station President Roosevelt smoked calmly until the train from the north came in-green coaches emblazoned with the Canadian crest. Protocol-Master George Thomas Summerlin dropped his hand-rolled, brown-paper cigaret, brushed off his pencil-stripe trousers, walked down the station stairs to greet the tweedy Guards-mustached Earl of Athlone, Governor General of Canada, his wife, Princess Alice, their daughter, Lady May Abel Smith...
...North have been let loose"). George Washington rejects a crown ("I must view with abhorrence"). Lincoln consoles Mrs. Bixby, whose sons had been killed in battle ("I feel how weak and fruitless must be any word of mine. . . ."). Emerson hails Walt Whitman's Leaves of Grass ("I greet you at the beginning of a great career"). John Brown writes his family from prison: "I am waiting the hour of my public murder with great composure of mind." Captain Robert Falcon Scott holds off death in the Antarctic long enough to scrawl: "We are showing that Englishmen can still...
Lenin spoke in his harsh, rasping voice to the crowd. "Dear comrades, soldiers, sailors and workers, I ... greet you as the advance guard of the international proletarian army. . . . Not today, but tomorrow, any day, may see the general collapse of European capitalism. The Russian revolution . . . has dealt it the first blow and has opened a new epoch. . .. Long live the International Social Revolution!" Then an armored car took him to revolutionary headquarters...
Bertrand Russell is here. With a tacit nod of satisfaction from the Corporation and perhaps a few grimaces from Boston's Thomas Dorgan to greet him, he arrived yesterday. The presence of this eccentric but learned Britisher marks a timely victory for the freedoms which are so much endangered today...