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"I showed the America I knew and observed to others who might not have noticed."
—Norman Rockwell
He was as American as Apple Pie and Uncle Sam!
Who was he?
He was, Norman Rockwell,
a reknowned and prolific artist, illustrator and historian
who held the hearts and imaginations of Americans!
Through the genius of his works of art, Norman Rockwell recreated and interpreted the essence of American life. Yes, he painted a swathe of America's on-going history manifested from every day life. Rockwell's messages, through his art, could be heard more clearly and far more loudly than the spoken word.
Norman was born in New York City in 1894, and it is said that he always wanted to be an artist. His first artwork commission, four Christmas cards, were painted before his sixteen birthday. During his teens and quite incredibly, but oh so believably, he found himself employed as art director of Boys’ Life, the official publication of the Boy Scouts of America. This employ established him in the beginnings of a remarkably successful freelance career illustrating a plethora of young people’s publications.
Following a family move to New Rochelle, NY, Rockwell joined with the cartoonist Clyde Forsythe and produced work for such magazines as Literary Digest, Country Gentleman and Life. During 1916, 22-year-old Rockwell painted his first works for the cover of The Saturday Evening Post! Through, perhaps, his role as Illustrator for The Saturday Evening Post, he found himself elevated to the best-loved of American Artists!
Over the ensuing 47 years, 321 more covers by Rockwell would appear on The Saturday Evening Post.
Mr. Rockwell was the father of three sons, Jarvis, Thomas and Peter through his second wife, Mary Barstow, a school teacher. Norman's first marriage in 1916 to Irene O’Connor, had ended in divorce by 1930.
Norman, with his sons and Mary, moved to Arlington, Vermont, in 1939, and his work took on the nuances of American life in the small town.
During the 1940s, Norman produced perhaps some of his most famous and beloved works. From poignant scenes of Americans at war, and at home to joyous reunions, gatherings, family events and so much more. From humor to everyay life, he depicted and encapsulated America.
President Franklin Roosevelt’s address to Congress in 1943, moved Mr. Rockwell to paint, the Four Freedoms paintings. These paintings were reproduced in consecutive issuances of The Saturday Evening Post alongside essays by contemporary writers. Rockwell’s renderings of the Freedom of Speech, Freedom to Worship, Freedom from Want, and Freedom from Fear were incredibly popular. His artist renderings went on tour throughout America in an exhibition jointly sponsored by the Post and the U.S. Treasury Department. Through this exhibit and through the sale of war bonds? More than $130 million was raised for the war effort! Oh, my stars and stripes, gentle readers!
Despite all of this success,1943 proved to be an enormous loss to the Rockwells. Fire ravished and destroyed his Arlington studio alongside near countless paintings and a myriad collection of historical props and costumes. In 1954 the family again moved, this time to Stockbridge, MA and within six years he suffered the death of his second wife. 1961, found Rockwell married to Molly Punderson, who was a retired teacher. In the next two years, he concluded his 47-year collaboration with The Saturday Evening Post and began working for Look magazine. Rockwell continued onward painting his most sincere and pressing concerns and devotion to include American poverty and civil rights.
In 1973, Rockwell established a trust to preserve his legacy and his works. He placed his artistic creations into the fine custody of the Old Corner House Stockbridge Historical Society, now known as Norman Rockwell Museum at Stockbridge.
In 1977, Rockwell was honored
with the nation’s highest civilian honor,
the Presidential Medal of Freedom.
As life woud have it, a Legend had passed,....gone.
November 8, 1978, Norman Rockwell died in his home in Sturbridge, MA.
Norman will be remembered forever through his works. His very creations are an intrinsic part of all of us!
While femininity reigns supreme and long legged women sashay across the stage before millions of admirers, the air is abuzz with vibrant energy and zeal surging from both audience and participants!
This cachet of talented and beautiful women parade before our eyes! They're the epitome of women with a dark and sultry air of seduction to the color and charm of the girl next door.
You'll find these women command the stage, not only as spirited and beautiful, but the picture of candor, and sweetness! They represent some of the best America has to offer!
Alongside the jagged edge of talent and brains they exude relaxation and warmth, sincerity and vulnerability and are equally at ease with their presence.
They capture our hearts, again and again as they've done for decades, through their wit, grace, poise, intelligence, beauty, vulnerability and charm...all a strong magnetic appeal for anyone!
Look as far and wide as ye may, anyone would be hard pressed to find a more superbly executed, finished, polished production-so wonderfully staged yet, filled with honest, and truthful moments alongside gleaming smiles and high hopes.
The show, this pageant, is intense, precise and connected of the white hot charms of these talented American women.
Tell you more? Thank you for asking!
This two day beauty pageant originated on September 8, 1921 in a seaside resort town known as Atlantic City, New Jersey. Atlantic City hoteliers,through what was reportedly an attempt to take advantage of the women's newfound role in society, perfected this idea. What better way to inovate and sway vacationers to extend their Labor Day weekend than a bathing suit contest?! Hooplah! Why didn't I think of that? Atlantic City, with her surf, sun and boardwalk would prove the most perfect location for this event! Why King Neptune himself greeted the beauties who competed! (Yours truly would give her tap shoes away for that esteemable honor alone!)
Surprise of surprises! This beauty contest bloomed and gained more interest AND recognition through time! Over the next eight decades, it would become a national tradition dedicated to defining the ideal American woman.
HERE SHE COMES, MISS AMERICA!
And indeed they came! Beautiful bevies of womenhood traveled to the Atlantic City resort each year, sometimes with nothing but a dream and the hope that the Pageant would further their career aspirations! Why, it was an opportunity to cash in on looks and talents for the promising average working woman! These Miss Americas, winning the title, were reported to make $100,000 and more during their reign! Holy Smokes, why that's more than....(I'll look that up and get back to you, poste haste, gentle readers!)
Still and all, this wasn't the perfect stage for American values and women to be paraded, or so it was said. So many pre-conceived values, from standards such as beauty, money, and a women's freedom and objectification! From patriotism to motherhood and American values, this Pageant was fraught, at times, with scorn from anxious Americans!
What you say?
This Institution, the Pageant had emerged as one of our country's sources of pride and most popular event! All this in spite of naysayers and critics of stringent religious groups to women's groups and women's rights movements who were aghast and against the display of female form
in public and labeled it beneath respectable behavior? No! Finally, the assault and criticism brought closure to the Pageant event in 1928.
In considering this closure and ensuing history of the Pageant, now would be a fine time to mention...
"If you look closely, you'll find much by way of
American history since the advent of this pageant and through the decades of it's history" . This Pageant alone, will regale and reveal much about America and it's acceptance of women. Too, it reveals an insight and changing evolving througout American history and the struggles and promises experienced through the decades. You'll see for yourself, an intense
change in American culture, if you choose to look closely! From the Depression, World War II, and the Jazz Age and Rosie The Rivetor,..history doth unfold!
DO let us ponder the
All-American Girl's Dream
and the women who graced
the American Runways in
the 1930s and 1940s!
Prepare yourselves,...gentle readers...
for a bit of entertainment, information, consternation,
a proffered revelation or two and
perhaps tads and scads of
hyperventilation.
Keep thine eyes on the talent cards, your hand atop your
foolish heart
...and ever ready to
trump your aces
as a bevy of beauties and a Queen of the Sweet "Hearts"
bound before your eyes....
That's right, the unveiling of a non-profit foundation "GETTYSBURG'S GREATEST GENERATION!"
Welcome and THANK World War II Col. Glenn D. Frazier, Author of Hell's Guest,
Gettysburg's Own John M. Sachs, WWII Veteran, and other
distinguished Guests.
Honoring our American History, through the events, education, memories and hearts of the GI Joes and Janes of WWII "The Greatest Generation"...both on The FRONT and The HOMEFRONT!
Born March 1, 1904 in Clarinda, Iowa, his name was Alton Glenn Miller. Americans knew and may yet remember him as an American jazz musician, arranger, composer, and bandleader in the swing era.
The tumultuous years from 1939 to 1943 found Glenn Miller to be one of the best-selling recording artists in America! He nosed-out other great bands of the era! Miller's signature recordings include the sounds of Chattanooga Choo Choo, In The Mood, America Patrol, Tuxedo Junction, Moonlight Serenade, Little Brown Jug and Pennsylvania 6-5000.
Tragically, stories surrounding his demise reveal, that apparently, whilst traveling to entertain U.S. troops in France during World War II, Miller's plane disappeared in fog and horrid weather somewhere over the English Channel. Glenn Miller's body has never been found.
(March 1, 1904- missing December 15, 1944)
Born to parents, Elmer and Mattie Lou Miller, the family moved from Iowa to Nebraska, then to Missouri, and finally, to Fort Morgan, Colorado. Through each move and with passage of time, Glenn Miller's musical talents took an irresistible step forward. From his first mandolin to the high school band, Miller sought ways to nourish his musical gifts of remarkable talent.
Upon High School Graduation in 1921, Glenn Miller further pursued his love of music, theory and composition while continuing his College education. From Los Angeles, California to New York City, NY... Glenn could be found working with bands, the Dorsey Brothers Orchestra, Ray Noble, as a trombonist and as a musical arranger. In 1928, Miller married Helen Burger married his College sweetheart!
1934 found Miller first recording under his own name, while still working with the Noble orchestra. After an initial, less than successful attempt in 1937 forming a band, the first real engagement with an all new Glenn Miller Orchestra was in 1938, Glen Island Casino!
1939 and 1942 found, Glenn Miller and his Orchestra enjoying the music of amazing popularity and commercial success! Hoopla! The Glenn Miller Orchestra recorded 17 Top 10 Hits in 1939! More successes followed in the years ahead for Glenn Miller and his Orchestra. Songs such as the classic swing sensations "In the Mood," "Little Brown Jug", "A String of Pearls" and "Moonlight Serenade." Miller's success included movies and a radio series entitled "Moonlight Serenade." This series could be found airing on CBS three times each week.
Glenn Miller's Orchestra's distinguished popularity could be attributed to the band's exceptional sound, personality and style! Miller was known to have stated emphatically that "A band ought to have a sound all of its own. It ought to have a personality." The combination of saxophone and clarinet was appealing to the listeners and added a resonance and swing!
In the wake of WWII's beginning, Glenn Miller unselfishly abandoned his civilian musical success to serve his country! What a guy! In 1942, he enlisted in the US Army Air Force (AAF Band) An important note or two...at the great old age of 38, Miller was considered too old to be drafted. Miller wrote to the then Army Brigadier General Charles Young in attempts to persuade the United States Army to accept him, and YES in his own words, "be placed in charge of a modernized Army band."
And, well...dreams do come true and Big Band Leaders could influence the Army as well!
Meaning,...we'll find it not such a surprise that Miller was persuasive in hisappeal and the Army Air Force Band was ahem...a huge success too! Through a maddening pace of over 800 performances, among them 300 personal appearances, and 500 broadcasts, Miller served as the host of "I Sustain the Wings",...a weekly radio show! Glenn played trombone with the Rhythmaires, a 15-piece dance band, and could be found jazzing and swinging (and winging) in service clubs. Here's a particularly lovely morsel...Glenn Miller promoted the activities of civil service women aircraft mechanics employed at Maxwell, AFB! And, the recordings of the Glenn Miller AAF band were used as propaganda broadcasts for the Office of War Information. How about that?
Did Jolene say "What A Guy", yet?
The Disappearance that stopped the Music...
As in the beginning of this tome and Blog, or Blong, and where we began,...It is recorded, on December 15, 1944, as Glenn Miller, aged 40, began embarkation on a tour of Europe, the flight/transport, (a single-engined UC-64 Norseman, USAAF serial 44-70285) on which he was aboard departed from RAF Twinwood Farm in Clapham, Bedfordshire and disappeared while flying over the English Channel. The plane was never recovered.
Miller's status is missing in action.
When Glenn Miller went missing, he left behind his wife... Helen, and two children, Steven and Jonnie.
Glenn Miller is remembered today as a great man, musician and for an unwavering patriotic devotion for his country! Aside from the music, he also influenced the evolution and commercial success of swing!
The Glenn Miller Army Air Force Band's long term legacy has carried on with the Airmen of Note, a band within the United States Air Force Band. This band was created in 1950 from smaller groups within the Bolling Air Force Base in Washington D.C. and continues to play jazz music for the Air Force community and the general public.
Things Are BETTER With The Big Band Swing,...I'm here to say!
Hubba, Hubba to you Glenn Dahling...never before and never again.
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The unveiling of a non-profit foundation "GETTYSBURG'S GREATEST GENERATION!"
Honoring our American History, through the events, memories and hearts of the GI Joes and Janes of WWII "The Greatest Generation"...both on The FRONT and The HOMEFRONT!
Experience WWII History like never before!
STAY TUNED DAHLINGS?
Hubba, Hubba from Jolene
And, now we'll return our focus to the Glenn Miller Band!
Interred in Arlington National Cemetery with full military honors.
Texas born and of Irish ancestry,
he is remembered as one of the best fighting combat soldiers America ever had to offer!
With 33 awards, the Medal of Honor and the highest military award for bravery beyond any call of duty, Audie Murphy, was the most decorated United States combat soldier of World War II.
He received every decoration for valor that the United States had to offer,
including 5 decorations by Belgium and France.
Serving three years of active service as a combat soldier in World War II, Audie was a legend with the 3rd Infantry Division!
His military service began as Army Private, and he rose quickly to enlisted rank of Staff Sergeant.
Given a "battle field" commission as 2nd Lieutenant, he fought valiantly in 9 major campaigns throughout the European Theater during WWII and was wounded three times!
Alas, September 21, 1945, Audie was released from active duty in the Army.
As history would have it...
moving onward to Hollywood, the appealing, darling, boyish faced Audie
began acting with his first starring role in a 1949 released film called Bad Boy.
All total, in the 25 years making films,
he starred in 44 feature films.
His 1949 autobiography, To Hell and Back was a best seller. And, the biography was released as a film in 1955 with Murphy starring as himself. The movie, To Hell and Back, held the record as Universal Films' highest grossing picture until the mid 1970s.
Audie Murphy was a writer of poetry and song. His songs were recorded and released by such great performers as Dean Martin, Eddy Arnold, Charley Pride and many, many others. Two of his biggest hits were Shutters and Boards and When the Wind Blows in Chicago.
Somewhere, history resonates with this declaration,
"There will never be another Audie Murphy."
.
May 28, 1971, (Memorial Day Weekend), found Audie on a business trip as a passenger in a private plane. Flying through fog and rain, the plane crashed into the side of a mountain near Roanoke, Virginia.
Audie Murphy was killed at the age of 46.
How About That?
Well, this about that from Bungalow Gal Jolene?
"To Hell and Back andto Heaven and Beyond" Thank you, Audie!
The WWII era selection and quality of quotes offered
below and
for the enlightenenment of our Gentle Readers are,
at times, random
and at other times simply
personal preference...why?
"Because I can."
A WOMAN'S VOICE
“The purpose of life, after all, is to live it, to taste experience to the utmost, to reach out eagerly and without fear for newer and richer experiences.”
Eleanor Roosevelt
“We gain strength, and courage, and confidence by each experience in which we really stop to look fear in the face... we must do that which we think we cannot.”
Eleanor Roosevelt
“Do what you feel in your heart to be right, for you'll be criticized anyway. You'll be damned if you do and damned if you don't.”
Eleanor Roosevelt
"This is not a time when women should be patient. We are in a war and we need to fight it with all our ability and every weapon possible. Women pilots, in this particular case, are a weapon waiting to be used."
Eleanor Roosevelt
“In the long run, we shape our lives, and we shape ourselves. The process never ends until we die. And the choices we make are ultimately our own responsibility.”
Eleanor Roosevelt
I have spent many years of my life in opposition, and I rather like the role.”
Eleanor Roosevelt
"I could not, at any age, be content to take my place by the fireside and simply look on. Life was meant to be lived. Curiousity must be kept alive. One must never, for whatever reason, turn his back on life.”
Eleanor Roosevelt
"Please know I am quite aware of the hazards. I want to do it because I want to do it. Women must try to do things as men have tried. When they fail their failure must be but a challenge to others."
Amelia Earhart, in her last letter to her husband, 1937.
"We realized what a spot we were in. We had to deliver the goods, or else there wouldn't ever be another chance for women pilots in any part of the service."
Cornelia Fort
"I can cure your men of walking off the [flight] program. Let's put on the girls."
Jacqueline Cochran
"I'm very definitely a woman and I enjoy it."
Marilyn Monroe
"Dogs never bite me. Just humans."
Marilyn Monroe
"I don't know who invented high heels, but all women owe him a lot."
Marilyn Monroe
"I don't mind living in a man's world as long as I can be a woman in it."
Marilyn Monroe
"What do I wear in bed? Why, Chanel No. 5, of course."
Maryilyn Monroe
"A kiss is a lovely trick designed by nature to stop speech when words become superfluous."
Ingrid Bergman
"A charming woman doesn't follow the crowd. She is herself."
Loretta Young
"Old age is no place for sissies."
Bette Davis
“Sometimes I wonder if men and women really suit each other. Perhaps they should live next door and just visit now and then.”
Katharine Hepburn
“Enemies are so stimulating.”
Katharine Hepburn
“Life is hard. After all, it kills you.”
Katharine Hepburn
“I never realized until lately that women were supposed to be the inferior sex.”
Katharine Hepburn
“We are taught you must blame your father, your sisters, your brothers, the school, the teachers - you can blame anyone but never blame yourself. It's never your fault. But it's always your fault, because if you wanted to change, you're the one who has got to change. It's as simple as that, isn't it?”
Katharine Hepburn
“I’ve lived by a man’s code designed to fit a man’s world, yet at the same time I never forget that a woman’s first job is to choose the right shade of lipstick.”
Carole Lombard
"Darling, the legs aren't so beautiful, I just know what to do with them."
Marlene Dietrich
"I am at heart a gentleman."
Marlene Dietrich
"I am not a myth."
Marlene Dietrich
"I dress for the image. Not for myself, not for the public, not for fashion, not for men."
Marlene Dietrich
"I have got two reasons for success and I'm standing on both of them."
Betty Grable
"With the man the world is his heart, with the woman the heart is her world."
Betty Grable
"To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three parts dead."
Bertrand Russell
"For it was not into my ear you whispered, but into my heart. It was not my lips you kissed, but my soul."
Judy Garland
“The dream was always running ahead of me. To catch up, to live for a moment in unison with it, that was the miracle.”
Anais Nin
“How wrong it is for a woman to expect the man to build the world she wants, rather than to create it herself.”
Anais Nin
"We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are.”
Anais Nin
“I am an excitable person who only understands life lyrically, musically, in whom feelings are much stronger as reason. I am so thirsty for the marvelous that only the marvelous has power over me. Anything I can not transform into something marvelous, I let go. Reality doesn't impress me. I only believe in intoxication, in ecstasy, and when ordinary life shackles me, I escape, one way or another. No more walls.”
Anais Nin
"For Whom, anywhere, can actually believe that we are on this earth to behave...in all
good endeavors... ordinarily rather than extraordinarily?"
Jolene Bungalow Gal
"From the magnitude of a specified force
or quality of
history
there arises... the
QUOTE"
Jolene Bungalow Gal
"From the magnitude of a specified force or quality of history there arises... the QUOTE"
Jolene Bungalow Gal
The WWII era selection and quality of quotes offered below and for the enlightenenment of our Gentle Readers are, at times, random and at other times simply personal preference...why?
"Because I can."
Fighting Words...
"In war there is no substitute for victory."
Gen Douglas MacArthur
"Old soldiers never die; they just fade away."
General Douglas MacArthur
"Age wrinkles the body. Quitting wrinkles the soul."
General Douglas MacArthur
“We are not retreating. We are advancing in another direction.”
General Douglas MacArthur
“Duty, Honor, Country. Those three hallowed words reverently dictate what you ought to be, what you can be, what you will be.”
General Douglas MacArthur
“I shall return.”
General Douglas MacArthur
“May God have mercy upon my enemies, because I won't.”
General George S. Patton
“Courage is fear holding on a minute longer.”
George S. Patton
"Pressure makes diamonds.”
George S. Patton
“I am a soldier, I fight where I am told, and I win where I fight.”
George S. Patton
"Do your damnedest in an ostentatious manner all the time.”
George S. Patton
Movie Quotes:
"I was born when you kissed me. I died when you left me. I lived a few weeks while you loved me." Humphrey Bogart
"Here's looking at you, kid."
Humphrey Bogart/Casa Blanca
"Things are never so bad they can't be made worse."
Humphrey Bogart/The African Queen
"Of all the gin joints in all the towns in all the world, she walks into mine."
Humphrey Bogart/Casa Blanca
"It doesn't take much to see that the problems of three little people doesn't add up to a hill of beans in this crazy world. Someday you'll understand that. Now,...Here's looking at you kid."
Humphrey Bogart/Casa Blanca
"My mother thanks you, my father thanks you, my sister thanks you, and I thank you."
Geogre M. Cohan/Yankee Doodle Dandy
" Just try and stay out of my way. Just try! I'll get you, my pretty, and your little dog, too!"
Wicked Witch of the West
"Toto, now I know...we're not in Kansas anymore"
Judy Garland, Wizard of Oz
QUOTES OF LEADERS:
Lady Nancy Astor: Winston, if you were my husband, I'd poison your tea.
Winston Churchill: Nancy, if I were your husband, I'd drink it.
“I am easily satisfied with the very best.”
Winston Churchill
“There are a terrible lot of lies going about the world, and the worst of it is that half of them are true.” Winston Churchill
“Never give in, never give in, never; never; never; never - in nothing, great or small, large or petty - never give in except to convictions of honor and good sense”
Winston Churchill
“History will be kind to me for I intend to write it”
Winston Churchill
"I'm just preparing my impromptu remarks.”
Winston Churchill
“You have enemies? Good. That means you've stood up for something, sometime in your life.”
Winston Churchill
“Please be good enough to put your conclusions and recommendations on one sheet of paper in the very beginning of your report, so I can even consider reading it”
Winston Churchill
“If this is a blessing, it is certainly very well disguised.”
Winston Churchill
“I like a man who grins when he fights.”
Winston Churchill
“We shall show mercy, but we shall not ask for it”
Winston Churchill
“Danger - if you meet it promptly and without flinching - you will reduce the danger by half. Never run away from anything. Never!”
Winston Church
“Success is going from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm.”
Winston Churchill
“There is nothing to fear but fear itself.”
Franklin D. Roosevelt
“We, and all others who believe in freedom as deeply as we do, would rather die on our feet than live on our knees”
Franklin D. Roosevelt
“Remember, remember always that all of us, and you and I especially, are descended from immigrants and revolutionists”
Franklin D. Roosevelt
“It's a terrible thing to look over your shoulder when you are trying to lead - and find no one there”
Franklin D. Roosevelt
“I ask you to judge me by the enemies I have made.”
Franklin D. Roosevelt
“When you get to the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on.”
Franklin D. Roosevelt
"Yesterday, December 7, 1941 - a date which will live on in infamy - the United States of America was suddenly and deliberately attacked by naval and air forces of the Empire of Japan."
Franklin D. Roosevelt, Address to Congress, Dec. 8, 1941
A WOMAN'S VOICE
“The purpose of life, after all, is to live it, to taste experience to the utmost, to reach out eagerly and without fear for newer and richer experiences.”
Eleanor Roosevelt
“We gain strength, and courage, and confidence by each experience in which we really stop to look fear in the face... we must do that which we think we cannot.”
Eleanor Roosevelt
“Do what you feel in your heart to be right, for you'll be criticized anyway. You'll be damned if you do and damned if you don't.”
Eleanor Roosevelt
"This is not a time when women should be patient. We are in a war and we need to fight it with all our ability and every weapon possible. Women pilots, in this particular case, are a weapon waiting to be used."
Eleanor Roosevelt
“In the long run, we shape our lives, and we shape ourselves. The process never ends until we die. And the choices we make are ultimately our own responsibility.”
Eleanor Roosevelt
I have spent many years of my life in opposition, and I rather like the role.”
Eleanor Roosevelt
"I could not, at any age, be content to take my place by the fireside and simply look on. Life was meant to be lived. Curiousity must be kept alive. One must never, for whatever reason, turn his back on life.”
Eleanor Roosevelt
"I have spent many years of my life in opposition, and I rather like the role.”
Eleanor Roosevelt
"Please know I am quite aware of the hazards. I want to do it because I want to do it. Women must try to do things as men have tried. When they fail their failure must be but a challenge to others."
Amelia Earhart, in her last letter to her husband, 1937.
"We realized what a spot we were in. We had to deliver the goods, or else there wouldn't ever be another chance for women pilots in any part of the service."
Cornelia Fort
"I can cure your men of walking off the [flight] program. Let's put on the girls."
Jacqueline Cochran
"I'm very definitely a woman and I enjoy it."
Marilyn Monroe
"Dogs never bite me. Just humans."
Marilyn Monroe
"I don't know who invented high heels, but all women owe him a lot."
Marilyn Monroe
"I don't mind living in a man's world as long as I can be a woman in it."
Marilyn Monroe
"What do I wear in bed? Why, Chanel No. 5, of course."
Maryilyn Monroe
"A kiss is a lovely trick designed by nature to stop speech when words become superfluous."
Ingrid Bergman
"A charming woman doesn't follow the crowd. She is herself."
Loretta Young
"Old age is no place for sissies."
Bette Davis
“Sometimes I wonder if men and women really suit each other. Perhaps they should live next door and just visit now and then.”
Katharine Hepburn
“Enemies are so stimulating.”
Katharine Hepburn
“Life is hard. After all, it kills you.”
Katharine Hepburn
“I never realized until lately that women were supposed to be the inferior sex.”
Katharine Hepburn
“We are taught you must blame your father, your sisters, your brothers, the school, the teachers - you can blame anyone but never blame yourself. It's never your fault. But it's always your fault, because if you wanted to change, you're the one who has got to change. It's as simple as that, isn't it?”
Katharine Hepburn
“I’ve lived by a man’s code designed to fit a man’s world, yet at the same time I never forget that a woman’s first job is to choose the right shade of lipstick.”
Carole Lombard
"Darling, the legs aren't so beautiful, I just know what to do with them."
Marlene Dietrich
"I am at heart a gentleman."
Marlene Dietrich
"I am not a myth."
Marlene Dietrich
"I dress for the image. Not for myself, not for the public, not for fashion, not for men."
Marlene Dietrich
"I have got two reasons for success and I'm standing on both of them."
Betty Grable
"With the man the world is his heart, with the woman the heart is her world."
Betty Grable
"To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three parts dead."
Bertrand Russell
"For it was not into my ear you whispered, but into my heart. It was not my lips you kissed, but my soul."
Judy Garland
“The dream was always running ahead of me. To catch up, to live for a moment in unison with it, that was the miracle.”
Anais Nin
“How wrong it is for a woman to expect the man to build the world she wants, rather than to create it herself.”
Anais Nin
"We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are.”
Anais Nin
“I am an excitable person who only understands life lyrically, musically, in whom feelings are much stronger as reason. I am so thirsty for the marvelous that only the marvelous has power over me. Anything I can not transform into something marvelous, I let go. Reality doesn't impress me. I only believe in intoxication, in ecstasy, and when ordinary life shackles me, I escape, one way or another. No more walls.”
Anais Nin
Arts And Actors
“Hell, if I'd jumped on all the dames I'm supposed to have jumped on, I'd have had no time to go fishing” Clark Gable
"I merely took the energy it takes to pout and wrote some blues."
Duke Ellington
"All cartoon characters and fables must be exaggeration, caricatures. It is the very nature of fantasy and fable."
Walt Disney
"All our dreams can come true, if we have the courage to pursue them."
Walt Disney
"Disneyland will never be completed. It will continue to grow as long as there is imagination left in the world."
Walt Disney
"I love Mickey Mouse more than any woman I have ever known."
Walt Disney
"A child of five could understand this. Fetch me a child of five."
Groucho Marx
"Life always rides in strength to victory, not through internationalism... but only through the direct responsibility of the individual."
Frank Lloyd Wright
"No house should ever be on a hill or on anything. It should be of the hill. Belonging to it. Hill and house should live together each the happier for the other."
Frank Lloyd Wright
"Noble life demands a noble architecture for noble uses of noble men. Lack of culture means what it has always meant: ignoble civilization and therefore imminent downfall."
Frank Lloyd Wright
"Why, I just shake the buildings out of my sleeves".
Frank Lloyd Wright
"About morals, I know only that what is moral is what you feel good after and what is immoral is what you feel bad after."
Ernest Hemingway
"Courage is grace under pressure."
Ernest Hemingway
"Every man's life ends the same way. It is only the details of how he lived and how he died that distinguish one man from another."
Ernest Hemingway
"Eisenhower had about the most expressive face I ever painted, I guess. Just like an actor's. Very mobile. When he talked, he used all the facial muscles. And he had a great, wide mouth that I liked. When he smiled, it was just like the sun came out."
Norman Rockwell
"Here in New England, the character is strong and unshakable."
Norman Rockwell
"I'll never have enough time to paint all the pictures I'd like to."
Norman Rockwell
"Some people have been kind enough to call me a fine artist. I've always called myself an illustrator. I'm not sure what the difference is. All I know is that whatever type of work I do, I try to give it my very best. Art has been my life."
Norman Rockwell
"I'm tired, but proud. "
Norman Rockwell
"The '20s ended in an era of extravagance, sort of like the one we're in now. There was a big crash, but then the country picked itself up again, and we had some great years. Those were the days when American believed in itself. I was happy and proud to be painting it."
Norman Rockwell
"I often lay on that bench looking up into the tree, past the trunk and up into the branches. It was particularly fine at night with the stars above the tree."
Georgia O'Keeffe
Sport Greats
"A nickel ain't worth a dime anymore."
Yogi Berra
"Always go to other people's funerals, otherwise they won't come to yours."
Yogi Berra
"It ain't the heat, it's the humility."
Yogi Berra
"I'm not a headline guy. I know that as long as I was following Ruth to the plate I could have stood on my head and no one would have known the difference."
Lou Gehrig
"The ballplayer who loses his head, who can't keep his cool, is worse than no ballplayer at all."
Lou Gehrig
"There is no room in baseball for discrimination. It is our national pastime and a game for all."
Lou Gehrig
I'll come back as soon as I can with as much as I can. In the meantime, you've got to hold."
General MacArthur - Speaking to General Wainwright - March 1942
Gentle Readers?
Many's the words and quotes thathave changed the course of history, enamoring and influencing millions.
That being said,...we're full-tilt, hard bent, torches flaring and
forging onward to visit,
and compile right here...
just those words!
Enjoin us as we celebrate
unforgettable quotes
from the remarkable 1930s and 1940s?
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an enticing interlude from the Kiss Waltz Whistle
all paired with an example of stunning artistry
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