Word: rightly
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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Sirs: There appears to be a general belief that a heavy bombardment of English seaports is to be expected. We have a right to expect that this will be the last concentration of explosions in a restricted sea area during our lifetime...
James Norman Hall's story of General Cambronne and his reply to the British (TIME, Jan. 22) was told first by Herodotus about an Egyptian general, 2,250 years before General Cambronne thought of it. And I'm not right sure Herodotus didn't get it from an Old Testament incident. The funniest reference to the same recherche subject is found in Thomas Dekker's The Shoemaker's Holiday, if I remember rightly, only that time it was a housemaid...
Gone are such luminaries as Artie Johns, Lupe Lupien, Dick Grondahl, Slim Curtiss, and Bob Gannett--not to mention Rud Hoye and Joe Soltz, dependable outer gardeners. In addition, an appendectomy has forced right fielder Bill Tully to drop out of school this year. All told, Stahl is left with Captain Tom Healey and Bob Fulton as his only experienced battery, shortstop Fred Keyes, and left fielder Gene Lovett...
...West. "Destry Rides Again," her latest vehicle, presents her in a rough and tumble burlesque of the dime quickies of the twenties. Dietrich, it will be generally conceded, has certain natural qualifications for the job of combination Mac West and Alice Faye: Hollywood has provided a script in the right mood; and the result is a motion picture capable of popularizing anything in a dress (Shirley Temple and the Dionne Quintuplets perhaps excepted...
...Lewis's modesty on political matters is not borne out by the reputation earned by his three most recent works of critical comment, the latest being "The Hitler Cult." Unable to bracket him as either "right" or "left," the members of both categories and the vast bulk in the middle have successively claimed him as an ally and hotly thrown him forth-from their midst, according to their varying interpretations of his ideas...