Word: posting
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...where the Welles mission was the biggest story of the week, journalists went in for some superlatives of their own. Headline of the week flared across the pages of the late Frederick Gilmer Bonfils' Denver Post, with a counterclaim dwarfing Hitler's as much as Hitler's dwarfed Bismarck's - "Roosevelt," headlined the Post, "Wants to Dictate Peace and Become President of World...
...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...
...Sixty post-debs of '39 and earlier vintages came in brightly colored ball dresses, but the '40 debs wore demure Court gowns of white. Two ventured crinolines, Lady Cecilia Fitzroy, cousin of the Duke of Grafton, Miss Mary Philippa Gary, niece of Viscount Falkland. Since Britain is bent on making this a democratic war, privates in uniform did not have to stay off the dance floor, as in 1914-8, twirled about the Great Room of the Grosvenor on a social par with their officers. With healthy appetites, debs and escorts gobbled large slices of the vast cake...
...most notorious opium and gambling joint in the whole area. No day goes by without at least one shooting in the Badlands. The section has naturally infected the adjacent International Settlement-so much so that no one is particularly surprised at advertisements in the American-owned Shanghai Evening Post & Mercury setting out the fine points of certain bullet-proof vests. Shanghai's "biggest jail in the world," Ward Road Gaol, is expected before the end of 1940 to house 10,000 prisoners, most of whom have spilled in from the Badlands...
...capacity audience crowded Emerson D last night to hear John Mason Brown '23, dramatic critic of the New York "Evening Post" and lecturer at the Summer School, speak on Hendrik Ibsen, the revolutionary Nineteenth century dramatist...