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...want women to grow their own hair," said Madame. "They look like hell while it's growing and just about when it's grown there will be a new fashion...
...probably Chinese, achieved complete surprise. O'Rama and his buddies were still talking about the bugles "when a hand grenade was thrown into our hole." Some cavalryman thonght their attackers were insane. Said a U.S. sergeant: "They would stand right up in front of you laughing to beat hell...
...Daly [shaken by reports that the Corps was going to be politer] grimly insisted that what he said was: "For goodness sake, you chaps, let us advance against the foe!" ¶ Col. Frederic W. Wise (who claimed that during World War I he had originated the phrase: "Retreat, hell-we just got here!") once heard his men had coined a nickname for him. He lined them up and shouted: "I hear you so-and-sos have taken to calling me 'Dopey.' All right; only don't forget that I'm also Wise'." ¶ The late...
...Hobos & Hell-for-Leather. In 1912, John persuaded his father and brother George to make an experiment. Until then, A & P stores had had charge accounts and deliveries. John, spotting a new trend, proposed a cash & carry "economy store" run by one man, operating at the lowest possible profit and snooting for big volume. The Hartfords opened the first such store, without giving it any name, in a dingy building not far from A & P's most profitable store in Jersey City. In six months, the obscure little economy store drove the bigger one out of business...
Author Schulberg estimates that "at least 50%, and maybe more, of the book is true." Fitzgerald fans will therefore judge The Disenchanted as a piece of spiritual (if not entirely factual) biography, but readers without their special interest will take it for the careering, hell-in-a-hack excitement of its story...