Word: returns
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...blood-red letters a foot high the street placards of London newsmen shrieked: "WHERE IS UNITY?" This would have made a good headline for the bombshell resignation of War Secretary Leslie Hore-Belisha, instead referred to the Hon. Unity Valkyrie Freeman-Mitford. Last week her return to Britain on a stretcher roused such public excitement that the War Office sent soldiers with rifles to keep unauthorized persons off the landing quay at Folkestone. Up in rock-ribbed Scotland the Lord Provost of Glasgow, Patrick Joseph Dollan, snorted: "It is simply disgusting that this attention should be paid to a little...
Lynde, small-salaried reporter on an Illinois weekly. Mr. Lynde falls heir to his uncle's estate - a country house, a daily newspaper and $25,000 in cash - in an un named European dictatorship. To enjoy this wealth, Mr. Lynde must return to his fatherland. Elated at the thought of publishing a paper of his own, Mr. Lynde is reminded that in his fatherland there is no freedom of the press, eventually decides to stay, poor but free...
Last week the eastern roads went before ICCommissioner Claude Rodman Porter for a continuation of the 2½? fare for more "trial" after its expiration date (March 24). In the sumptuous hearing room of ICC in Washington they found only B. & O. fighting for return of the 2? fare. Leading the fight was Dan Willard, who will be 79 before the month...
...hill above England's Salisbury Plain a stuffy general stood at the roadside, watching the 17th Light Battery return from a route march. Mules, guns, gunners. A frail, thoughtful major at the head of the column, a red-faced ungentlemanly subaltern in the rear. The general responded more favorably to the sight of a third officer: a fair young second-lieutenant with the right build for a horseman, a careless, well-bred face. Good stuff, this. "Who's that, Benjamin?" "Windrush, sir, Tubby Windrush." "Windrush . . . Windrush ... I knew his father. Get him here, will...
...McGill's frantic efforts for a rout, it never displayed its scrappy determination and team play which won the B.U. and St. Nicks tilts. Captain Bill Coleman and his team were worried from the start by McGill's superior, smooth skating outfit, and they never won the confidence to return a concerted attack...