Word: pillbox
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...experience, as the one which Sir Alan constructed between Lille and the Somme last winter while the B. E. F. Second Corps, which he commanded, was marking time. Observers believe that, had the French commanders prepared as wisely and industriously as Sir Alan, instead of relying on the thin pillbox line of their Maginot extension, the German breakthrough could not have been so swift and disastrous. In France the Brooke system never had a chance to prove itself, for after being ordered into, then out of Belgium, the Second Corps was swung south of its prepared positions in a brief...
...hipped Joan Crawford is one of Adrian's favorite models, Susan and God is no mean fashion event. Feminine movie goers and scouts who remembered such nationwide Adrian clicks as the puffed sleeves Crawford wore in Letty Lynton, Garbo's Eugenie hat in Romance and jaunty pillbox in Mat a Hari, ogled Miss Crawford in a quilted bed jacket and chiffon wimple, a severe black frock with white loops sprouting from one shoulder, a striking evening gown suspended from a white cord (see cut), 13 other Adrian changes...