Word: alamo
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Died. James Buchanan Elmore, 85, "The Bard of Alamo," one of the popular poets of the '90s; on his farm near Alamo, Ind. He enjoyed a latter-day revival when newspaper columnists reprinted him for the sake of such lines as: "He absconded to Cincinnati, and dentistry took, And left a true love he wilfully forsook...
...Alamo (Ray Noble; Columbia). Post-World War I classic played by Britain's No. 1 dance band in its slickest and most satisfying pre-War II style...
...that moonlit path by the Alamo...
...officers waited. Whenever they stepped out from behind the trees, and sometimes when they didn't, a fusillade roared from the dark windows. Inside the cabin the boys were firing as fiercely as if they had been defending the Alamo, except that they shot through the walls, the ceiling, the furniture, even through the floor. At 1 o'clock police got a tear-gas grenade through a window, called again for the boys to give up. "Nuts!" cried the boys, with a perceptible quaver. At 1:30 the police got another grenade through; with tears streaming down their...
...hypocritical missionaries, the story of the Irish monk and the satanic trader, Parker, and Seaman O'Connell on a berserk rampage. Included also is many a burst of virtuoso prose, in which Author Goodrich compares the ship to a walled town, to the Tower of Constance, to the Alamo, to anything that represents man's constant war against an unfriendly world...