Word: labelers
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...first place, the label-conscious U. S. had at first given the late Lord Lothian exactly the same tags; but he had turned out first-rate. Besides, Lord Halifax had been through everything-all the way from the practice of pious imperialism as India's Viceroy, to its desperate defense as Britain's wartime Foreign Secretary. Having bossed ambassadors, he would know how to be one. It was felt that those Puritan Americans would like Halifax's deeply religious nature. This devotion, which bred the conviction in him that Adolf Hitler is a creature of the devil...
Ability to label a pistol as a gun proved helpful for buck privates who wanted to gain chevrons, but was only a first step. Draftees now go directly from reception centres to tactical units which are below war strength. But after next March, they will spend 14 weeks at replacement centres now building, to learn something of soldiering before joining seasoned troops. Those who look good on the basis of their G. C. test and show leadership qualities will get a crack at commanding, may attain the status of "cadet" or "temporary sergeant," wear not chevrons but an identifying...
...unidentified portion of an unmentioned European country, on an unstated day ('recently' is the official word for it). There was no weather. Had there been, it would have been considered a military secret. The alert sounded at no particular hour because the enemy-one hesitates to label them with a proper name-are not supposed to know the right time...
Great Britain's fleet at Gibraltar welcomed the assignment last week of escorting three supply ships bound for Malta through what Italy still calls Mare Nostrum ("Our Sea") but which cartoonists now label Nightmare Nostrum. It was known that what was left of the Italian Navy after Admiral Sir Andrew Browne Cunningham's brilliant aerial-torpedo stab into its main base at Taranto (TIME, Nov. 25) had scuttled for a more remote hideaway, probably Cagliari on Sardinia's south coast or Naples on the mainland. Perhaps the British keepers of the western gate of Italy...
...really good girl singers around these days. Reverse is The Golden Wedding, full of jungle music and tom-toms. Okay if you like that sort of thing.... Somebody by the name of Walter Cross has a piano solo called Creepy Weepy on BLUEBIRD. The label says it's boogie-woogie, but it's not. It's not anything at all, just a mess of inane runs and phrases that don't get anywhere.... The Jimmie Lunceford softball team, fresh from a victory over Benny Goodman's outfit, has challenged the Crimson to a game any time next spring. "You just...