Word: 20th
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Major General Claire Chennault, hawk-eyed chief of the Fourteenth Air Force in China, publicly greeted Hollywoodians Jinx Falkenburg and Pat O'Brien, members of a U.S.O. troupe whose performance moved 20th Bomber Command enlisted men-hitherto highly critical of China-Burma-India theater performers- to present them with a commendatory scroll...
...Davis loose on the flanks. As they had done all year, Army's swivel-hipped backs went for distance once they got in the clear. Halfback Dale Hall slipped inside tackle and went 24 yards for one touchdown. Davis raced 50 yards around right end for another (his 20th of the season...
Tragedy, of a gentle sort, threatens the Smiths when their father (Leon Ames) accepts a business promotion which means their permanent removal to New York. During the later reels of the picture they realize with considerable poignancy just how cherishable the spacious and innocent securities of early 20th-century life in a good provincial city could be. Director Vincente Minelli and his colleagues are so profitably absorbed in such everyday matters that they make only a curtain-bow to the St. Louis Fair...
What the U.S. has always liked, and usually got, is a Vice President who raises neither fuss nor feathers, who serves his term and then sinks back into comfortable anonymity. There have been some 20th-century exceptions, men like Garner and Wallace who made news while in office. But Vice Presidents are mainly remembered, when they are, for irrelevancies, like Thomas Marshall for his catch phrase: "What this country needs is a good five-cent cigar...
...sports and cinema writer turned war correspondent, tall, young (25), quiet-voiced David Lardner. His story was a factual, homey piece about life in liberated Luxembourg. Two days after publication came news that Lardner, leaving conquered Aachen in a jeep, had run into a minefield. He was the 20th U.S. correspondent killed in World...