Word: setting
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...professional fighting men have sought martyrdom more insistently than gaunt, intense Captain John G. Crommelin, U.S.N. It was Airman Crommelin who set off the acrimonious Navy hearings last fall, encouraged an utterly unfounded charge of Air Force corruption in B-36 procurement, surreptitiously handed confidential Navy correspondence to the press, and obstreperously demanded a public court martial. Severely reprimanded and exiled to San Francisco last fall, Crommelin refused to be silent. Two or three times a week, from Reno to Los Angeles, before Rotary clubs and businessmen's luncheons, he defiantly reiterated his charges that the Navy was being...
...returned from a holiday in South Africa, and with a slight tan covering his bookish pallor, Mr. Eliot was back in his accustomed London haunts, primly pacing his familiar round. His day began at 8 a.m. At noon, after a man-sized breakfast of tea, porridge, bacon & eggs, he set out for his place of business, the publishing firm of Faber & Faber, in Bloomsbury. He left his flat in Cheyne Walk, Chelsea (Expatriate Henry James used to live in the flat just below), wearing an impeccable dark blue suit and carrying a tightly rolled umbrella, walked one block...
...also loves practical jokes. For years, Eliot patronized a small store which specialized in exploding cigars, squirting buttonholes and soapy chocolates. Once, on the Fourth of July, at a solemn board meeting of Faber & Faber, he set off a bucketful of firecrackers between the chairman's legs...
...election day, Tory Anthony Eden put on a brown tweed suit and set out hatless to tour the polling stations in his Warwickshire constituency. At one Conservative headquarters, officials told Eden of two elderly spinsters who had sent word, "Don't worry about us. We shall bicycle down to vote after tea." At another station, an indomitable 80-year-old woman made it to the polling booth, cast a Tory vote and collapsed. Said she: "Well, there, that's the last thing I can do for my country...
...help the 600 students going abroad on the S. S. Volendam make the most of their summer, the National Students Association has set up an elaborate orientation program for the ten day trip...