Word: scabbards
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week, Commander John Caldecott Littler sat in a naval courtroom at Halifax, an empty scabbard at his side, his sword lying crosswise on a table before the president of the court. As a result of last summer's collision between his destroyer Micmac and the freighter Yarmouth County (TIME, July 28), half a dozen charges had been brought against him. The most serious: he had hazarded his ship...
...save us is ideas." At his first performance (Tosca), the guns of the firing squad failed to fire in the last act, and the hero had to drop dead without a bang. In Carmen, the audience was convulsed by a soldier trying to put his saber into its scabbard the wrong way. But by the time the curtain had gone down on Martha, critics cheered...
...officially opened the ceremony by striking the platform three times with his scabbard, after which Dean Sperry offered the invocation. The Commencement parts were then delivered by James B. Peabody '45, who gave the Latin Salutatory, S. Douglas Cater '46 1G, and Robert V. Hansberger...
...only cheapened by arty metaphors ("I ceased to pluck at the sleeve of time") and an ornate vocabulary (including "presby-opic," "subfusc," "lincrusta," "curtilage"), but also lacks the dramatic quality of Author Hutchinson's earlier novels (The Unf or gotten Prisoner-TIME, Feb. 26, 1934; Shining Scabbard-TIME, Dec. 28, 1936). Like The Keys of the Kingdom, Interim is a natural for Hollywood-where its spirituality will be melodramatized, its lincrusta made less subfusc...
...Japs than I saw in any other one spot that first day. They had evidently been taking their machine gun apart for withdrawal inland when a bomb or shell scored a direct hit on their hole. A souvenir-hunting Corpsman was removing the bayonet from one Jap's scabbard. A colonel, whose regimental command post was near by, shouted: "You'll get yourself mixed up with a booby trap. Now goddam it, leave him alone...