Word: make
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Helen Gwynne-Vaughan (TIME, Oct. 9). Overseas ATS commander (called "Top Ats" by the Tommies) is crisp, efficient Mrs. Kathleen Molly Fuller-Maitland, horsey wife of a major heroically wounded in War I. Last fortnight Mrs. Fuller-Maitland arrived in France with six assistants, including a former parlormaid, to make all ready for her main force to join the B. E. F. One of her first acts was to post a list of rules which ATS must obey at the front...
...make history tremble
...other obvious reason for Swedish nonintervention: Stockholm is within very easy bombing distance of Berlin as well as Leningrad. Last week a curious deal was reported arranged between Sweden and Germany. Premier Hansson's Government agreed to buy all the arms of Swedish make and pattern which Germany captured in Poland. Germans had no use for guns of a different type from their own. What made the deal curious was that the only imminent use Sweden could make of them would be against Germany's ally Russia...
...first time in nearly 15 years. It was not much of a homecoming. Playwright van Druten's idea of celebrating was to bring on the stage some distinctly unattractive people who do decidedly unsavory things and come to extremely unpleasant ends. And he did his best to make the play as dull as it was depressing...
...Heaven has the effect of melodrama without the excitement, the violence of love without the poignancy. Apparently based on a real murder case, it suffers thereby from having no guiding idea behind it. Whatever it was meant to show, all it proves is that messy lives can make messy plays...