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Examples
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“We have finally tracked down Jane Foster Mrs. George Zlatovsky,” Julia reported on the card she sent out to Ellie Thiry and Basil Summers.
A Covert Affair Jennet Conant 2011
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Ellie Thiry was already being monopolized by a Major Francis Basil Summers, a dashing British army intelligence officer who had been on the stage in London before the war and positively reeked of derring-do.
A Covert Affair Jennet Conant 2011
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Eleanor Thiry, unpublished diary and private family letters.
A Covert Affair Jennet Conant 2011
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When they all got together in the evening, usually in various stages of dressing for dinner, they would smoke and chat, and try to pry the latest ship gossip out of their lanky girl reporter, whom Ellie Thiry described as “their representative” to the paper.
A Covert Affair Jennet Conant 2011
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The nine OSS women—“crows” in GI slang—were “a source of curiosity” on the tight ship with more than three thousand men, Thiry noted in her diary.
A Covert Affair Jennet Conant 2011
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Ellie Thiry was already being monopolized by a Major Francis Basil Summers, a dashing British army intelligence officer who had been on the stage in London before the war and positively reeked of derring-do.
A Covert Affair Jennet Conant 2011
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When they all got together in the evening, usually in various stages of dressing for dinner, they would smoke and chat, and try to pry the latest ship gossip out of their lanky girl reporter, whom Ellie Thiry described as “their representative” to the paper.
A Covert Affair Jennet Conant 2011
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* Ellie Thiry also wrote very long letters to her family, including “almost a manuscript” about her voyage on the Mariposa, and asked her sister to share a carbon copy with “the gals and guys” left in D.C.—a veiled reference to her OSS colleagues.
A Covert Affair Jennet Conant 2011
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“We have finally tracked down Jane Foster Mrs. George Zlatovsky,” Julia reported on the card she sent out to Ellie Thiry and Basil Summers.
A Covert Affair Jennet Conant 2011
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* Ellie Thiry also wrote very long letters to her family, including “almost a manuscript” about her voyage on the Mariposa, and asked her sister to share a carbon copy with “the gals and guys” left in D.C.—a veiled reference to her OSS colleagues.
A Covert Affair Jennet Conant 2011
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