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...year ago this week, after several weeks' gradual buildup, the Luftwaffe let hell loose over London and poured it on day after...
...attack, sir?' the Captain says, probably thinkin' that Tovey, bein' the admiral, might pick the easier of the jobs. 'No, you bloody fool, we'll ram!' old Splash says. Just then the Warspite* behind us signaled and asked him what the bloody hell he was doin'. 'Am pursuin' small detachment of Italian destroyers,' he signals back. But somehow the Warspite and some more of our battleships got in between us and them, and that's probably why I'm here havin' this pleasant drop of beer...
...Sixteen times against the enemy! Sixteen times expose your backside as you smack into the hell and never mind what may become of you, watching the bullets of the enemy machine guns whip between your legs...
...bright-witted, toothy British youngsters last week raised merry hell with British-Canadian relations. In the first frantic days of the war Caroline and Eddie Bell were shipped off to Canada by their Oxford don father who admonished them that "you can't lay the flattery and gratitude on too thick-they love it." After a year in Canada and the U. S. the children couldn't stand it any longer, authored a book entitled Thank You Twice (Harcourt, Brace; $1). This time they heeded the admonition of their publisher to "pull no punches," said precisely what they...
...experience of revolvers, took to firing them in any direction, used them to kill flies. In most camps the soldiers did not think it necessary to dig latrines. Said one bored volunteer, eying the national capital: "Hardly worth defending, except for the éclat of the thing." On payday hell broke loose. Some Zouaves, refused admittance to Julia Deane's bordello, fired pistols at Inmate Nelly Mathews, "who pluckily returned their fire...