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...Western calendar and may occur even in winter, this year's Ramadan of 29 days appropriately broke right into the hottest summer that Egypt remembers. The damp caused by the flooding Nile spread low clouds like woolen blankets over Egypt. Tempers rose, gharry drivers and porters spit abuse at one another, fists went into action on the slightest provocation. Even unfasting, infidel Christians seemed unduly cross...
...farthest outpost in China. I can damn near spit on the Japs from here. . . . I started to teach a little Chinese kid English yesterday. You remember how mad Daddy would get when I couldn't get something through my head? I do the same with the kid but he only looks at me and smiles! That's the Chinese for you. . . . It will be some time before I get home. Not this Xmas, I'm sure. I got a lot of work to do here. . . . There are lots of these damn Japs . . . and close...
They Like the Life, There is no spit & polish for men on a sub. At sea the bluejackets wear what they please, usually dungarees, sometimes only skivies and sandals. Officers shuck their neckties and open their shirt collars. Everybody smokes almost everywhere. There is an old-shoe ease about the whole ship's company, but there is no infringement of dignity or discipline...
...Frederick Lascoff. who succeeds his father, is his spit and image, but bigger...
Like his close friend Ben Lear (whom he was slated to succeed when he was pulled away from his corps command last October), cocky, Wyoming-born, West Point-educated Lloyd Fredendall is a spit-&-polish disciplinarian, a top-notch administrator, a stern critic of incompetent commanders. At one maneuver critique last summer he cracked: "The opposing commanders got their lines so far extended it would have taken a week to send a postcard from one end to the other...