Word: angeles
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Opera House, that man took part in a performance of Petrouchka. A Russian greatcoat swathed his solid form, false whiskers his jowls; a fur hat veiled his glabrous dome. S. (for "Sol" for Solomon) Hurok, impresario of the ballet, was playing a super. With him, similarly disguised, was Sportsman-Angel Julius Fleischmann (yeast), head of World-Art, Inc., which owns the ballet...
...printing that article. I have gained a lot of unseen friends, been ribbed to death, my pretty little wife isn't quite sure whether she wants to be seen with me in Public Places, and strangers write me that I am only one shade handsomer than that dude Angel the wrestler, but I have a hound dog that sure still thinks that I am kind of nice. So I don't care. And I'm not worried. And I am going to keep right on digging wells and probably getting spanked...
...county seat of Douglas County in Missouri's Ozarks, was named out of the Bible. Pioneer Jim Hailey saw the word of II Kings, xvii, 24, liked it. Two months ago, the folk of Ava began to think they could hear the wings of an angel over their town. First, Mrs. E. E. Lawson, whose husband was formerly a storekeeper, now runs a filling station in Ava, got a mysterious letter. It was a cashier's check for $100 with a note attached, which read: ''With the compliments of an oldtime friend." Pleased but puzzled...
Whoever the Angel of Ava was, he was someone who knew the neighborhood. How else could he have known about J. E. Mackey, storekeeper of neighboring Rome, who had gone to Costa Mesa, Calif, to live? Mackey was the next to get a $100 surprise. The next, Mrs. Henry S. Wilson, another widow of an Ava merchant, straightway ran across the street to show her friend old Dr. Jasper Leonard Gentry her check for $50. Said she: "You'll be next to get one of these...
...shell out $425 for ten weeks of apprenticeship at an arty summer theatre. The old Lewis ear for idiom goes to work on airy Director Roscoe Valentine ("So beautifully fallible!"); the old Lewis Saturday Evening Post touch appears in godlike, athletic Andy Deacon, Yale and Newport, amateur actor and angel to the company. Bethel Merriday learns the talk, the tricks, the hard-working realities of acting. She would agree with her creator that...