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...cutlery, etc.) by May 30, complete with a classification of each item, where bought, net cost, sales price, percentage markup, etc. DeVore figured that he would have to put in three hours a day after work for three months to fill out all the OPS blanks. Said he: "The hell with...
...Enclosure as if it were a transient hotel. Its reigning matriarch, Mrs. Halstead, dies, and with her goes the grand style of life. She had been, as one of the Enclosure stalwarts put it, "the only one around here worth the powder to blow her to hell." Those who survive are a sad lot: her son Christopher, a bilious minister devoted to the comforts of the flesh; her grandson Christopher Jr., a well-read neurotic who fritters himself away in hypochondria; her neighbor Moylan Stacy, an undertaker new to the Enclosure and representing the crudity of the new rich...
...social activities are there for those who want them. The answer one Waban wench gave to the age old question, "Who Wellesley?" seems to sal the tone. Stretching her arms up to the sun, she looked coyly out of the comes of one eye, and demanded, "Well, why the hell...
...sort of waggled his wings at the tanks -sort of a signal I guess-and they lifted their fire on to the Chinese machine guns. An American lieutenant said we'd have to make a run for it, so we climbed on the tanks and away we went, hell for leather, right through the Chinese...
...chief purchasing officer for the A.E.F. and a brigadier general. After the war, Dawes urged the appointment of a national budget director, became, under President Harding, the nation's first, won later fame for the Dawes Plan (1924) for easing Germany's reparations payments. His profanity ("Hell 'n Maria") and tart, impulsive manner caused comment at home, more so abroad. In England, as U.S. Ambassador, he staunchly refused to appear in the standard knee breeches,* turned up at court wearing ordinary evening dress and at state functions smoked the big underslung pipe that became his trademark...