Word: rosing
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...national fever rose last week. Up zoomed the sales of political buttons. Movie theatres rocked to applause for newsreel shots of the candidates. Everywhere headquarters bloomed with bunting, boomed with antlike activity. Bettors bet more; arguments got louder; radio listeners found less swing and more oratory. The 1940 campaign was really...
...lucky if they had paper to wrap their feet against the cold.) Nor did soldiers in the first U. S. peacetime Army fare much better $82 a month for the ranking officer, $4 for privates in 1785. When the British returned for the War of 1812, privates' pay rose to $8 a month (plus $124 bounty for enlisting). After peace came in 1815, the U. S. treated its Army as usual, cut the privates...
...citizens still doubted that there would be a war, U. S. Army privates rated $13 a month. Then war came after all, the Confederates scared the Yankees at Bull Run, and Union privates got a $100 bounty for enlisting. In 1864, when conscription had at last been voted, pay rose to $14.87. Ma jor General Ulysses Simpson Grant by then was winning the war and buying his salutary whiskey on $2,640 a year (plus keep, four servants). As a lieutenant gen eral and later a full general he received $3,240 to $4,800 (plus keep and servants...
Gamelin, who dropped from sight after being succeeded by General Maxime Weygand, was the most active of all. Rumor had had him executed, dead by suicide or fleeing the country to save his skin. Actually he had been tending the rose garden at his home near Paris and showed up to give a certain zip to the dullness of the chateau's life. Briskly he did daily setting-up exercises, snappily returned the salutes he rates from the soldiers who guard...
Whereabouts of Their Majesties' own children was officially secret but they were known to be "out of London" and on Sunday Princess Elizabeth and Princess Margaret Rose went to church with their parents in the Chapel Royal at Windsor Castle. Princess Elizabeth is said to be the only heir to the British Throne who ever studied U. S. history, last week was plugging through the late Lord Bryce's standard work The American Commonwealth. She has dropped the study of German, taken up Spanish. Both moppets and their Corgi terrier, Jane, have gone on wartime rations, both collect...