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Last week Britons revived an old fear: gas. After Munich and at the war's beginning, Britain was very much on guard against gas. Over 45,000,000 gas masks were distributed, but gradually the fear blew away, and now only about one in five carries a mask, usually only when the war of nerves is fiercest. Last week the Government considered requiring gas masks as an admission "ticket" for bomb shelters; planned practice gas alarms to remind the people of this threat; put pressure on producers of gas-fighting equipment to speed...
...believe that Peroy won his first fencing prize in 1896. Short, with sparkling eyes, a greying military mustache, slight French accent and a barrel chest, he resembles nothing so much as a bamtam cock. Nearly every day, shortly ater luncheon, he pulls on his huge gloves, tips his mask over his face and begins to fence, not stopping till five o'clock or later...
...feet Andy McDonough put on his oxygen mask, circled to the northeast, making a mental note to stay away from the field so that he wouldn't "mess up the airport" if the dive wasn't a success. At 27,000 feet he was 15 miles northeast of the field. The outside thermometer registered 33 below. To the northwest, 25 miles away, he could see Niagara Falls. He called the ground: "... will dive from west to east." Then he turned on the fixed movie camera, focussed on the faces of his instruments-altimeter, clock, airspeed indicator, thermometer...
...better way of making democracy work at home than handing the country over to the reactionary wing of the Republican party. And above all, increase production and ship as much as possible to England. If this sort of activity does not interest the Committee, it ought to drop its mask and call itself the Committee against Government Intervention in Business. Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr. '38, Junior Fellow
Essayist Richard Steele to Mary Scurlock (1707): ". . . You must give me either a fan, a mask or a glove you have worn, or I cannot live. . . ." Biographer James Boswell to Isabella de Zuylen (1764): "You have fine talents of one kind; but are you deficient in others? Do you think your reason is as distinguished as your imagination? Believe me, Zelide, it is not. Believe me and endeavor to improve. . . ." (She rejected him.) Field Marshal Gebhard von Bliicher to one Frau von S. (1795): "I can't enter upon any marriage which does not make provision...