Word: leathered
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...still make it hot for submarines. Also they were invaluable for training. Each one was a ship where a young lieutenant commander could learn the unforgettable lessons of his first command. On each one of these pitching, rocking sea horses, bluejackets could learn the strange, good-humored, hell-for-leather technique and attitude of the destroyerman; young officers, at duties on deck and below, or hanging to the overhead in wardroom bull sessions, could become Navy-the good, hard...
...monks; 77% of them have gone on to non-Catholic colleges. Headmaster Hume (known to Canterburians as "the Doc") makes them study hard (eight classes a day). Each afternoon a Canterburian puts on a dark blue or grey suit, white shirt and black shoes (Eton collars and patent-leather pumps were discarded about ten years ago) for tea. Canterbury boys get no demerits, but for good behavior they get two extra days off at Christmas and Easter vacations. Few Canterburians misbehave, for few care to provoke Dr. Hume's anger, his great, booming voice...
...Dutch refugees from the Nazis, but they did not play the refugee game. They hid in a cave on a lonely stretch of coast, or slipped from dark barn to thick forest to empty warehouse, peeking, listening, taking notes. At night they crawled into lonely hedgerows, unpacked two small leather cases containing a wireless transmitter, and sent whatever they knew...
Other members of the Cabinet remained. After a while they, too, departed. Members of Peyrouton's GP, wearing leather helmets and arm bands, appeared in the streets of Vichy. One hundred soldiers of the French Army surrounded the Hotel du Pare, where Laval was staying. Then three officers of the Surete Nationale entered the hotel. When they emerged, Pierre Laval was with them. He was placed in Marcel Peyrouton's own automobile and driven nobody would say where...
...achievement after an arduous hunt, whether of fox, pheasant or folio, have much in common." Thus graciously the Grolier Club last week mixed foxes and folios in an exhibit of members' sporting books and prints in its Manhattan clubhouse. Within its print-hung, paneled walls, smelling of old leather bindings and armchairs, the Grolier is a club of booklovers more interested in a richly tooled cover than in a succulent footnote or limpid trochee. It was founded in 1884 by craftsmen and wealthy collectors to improve the then wretched state of U. S. bookmaking. Its name commemorates a great...