Word: rightly
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...Spanish Loyalist Army, ragged and footsore, fled last year over the Pyrenees into France, over 10,000 wounded stumbled along with them. Their torn, broken arms or legs were stiffly supported in filthy, foul-smelling plaster casts. French doctors, fearing development of gas gangrene, began to amputate, left & right. Before they had done much bone-sawing, they found to their amazement that cases of gangrene were very rare. Normally, even in arm or leg wounds which had been disinfected and bandaged, they could expect more than ten cases of gangrene per 1,000. But only a score of the wounded...
Bill of Divorce. One reason pert Vivien Leigh (rhymes with Robert E.) got the part of Scarlett O'Hara was because at the right time she was in Hollywood seeing darkly scowling Laurence Olivier. He looks like a swarthy Douglas Fairbanks Jr., is as British as young Douglas Fairbanks tries to be. When Olivier was acting with Katharine Cornell in No Time for Comedy, Vivien Leigh used to nag Director Fleming to speed up Gone With the Wind so she could fly to Manhattan and Laurence Olivier. When Vivien Leigh flew to Atlanta, for the premiere of Gone With...
...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...
...legendary explosive final spurt of the veteran miler, and that Lash is still as strong as ever in the two mile, the Veterans of Foreign Wars meet at Boston Garden Saturday night gave a part of the track team a chance to show it was headed in the right direction...
...Right in front of the coaches' side-line seats, Mitchell Ford and Steve Madey were boosting themselves over the high bar in the pole vault event at an even 13 feet. Ford, a Freshman, has shown his stuff in coming up from the 11 feet 6 inches he averaged before Jaakko took him in hand. Madey took first place and a medal in the event; be lunched along the runway three times and came heartbreakingly close to rolling over the bar at 13 feet 6 inches...