Word: al
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Whan that Somer with his fon hadde gone The CLERKES hadde al bak to scole yronne, And filled ech rome with swich a swete soun To mak the halles with ladies lough resounen. And oft twas seyde by them as hadde an ye That they wewr al engaged in villainye...
...KNYGHT was ther, and he was war and wys Who hadde him worde from nygh apothecaries That thogh the clerkes worthy al did sem Hir lechoury hadde longe in proces been. The knyght then in a loude tonge rendred That al by lak of vertu was engendred, And he could mak swyft remedie with powre By shortenyng hir synnyng tyme an houre...
...short mating season, a male beetle spends most of its time scuttling through the herbage searching out nubile females. When he finds one, he races in front of her, blocks her way and offers his tuft of hair as if it were a box of candy. The female almost al ways accepts the gift, leaning on the male while she nibbles the baited hairs...
Willson has borrowed the book for his musical from a whimsical little cream puff of a 1947 movie called Miracle on 34th Street. Stuck with an inebriated Santa, Macy's unwittingly hires the real Kris Kringle to handle the reins as Donder, Blitzen, et al., mush through the big Thanksgiving Day parade. Kris (Laurence Naismith) stays on for the holiday rush and he is a loving wonder at dandling the kids on his knee. There are minor complications, of course, like St. Nick's spending a day or two in the mental ward at Bellevue until his credentials...
...number one Crimson player, Frank Ripley; Vic Niederhoffer, number three; and Benjamin all made the semifinals of their tournaments. Ripley beat Army's Al Oehrlein before bowing to the eventual winner, Princeton's Herb Fitzgibbon...