Word: arched
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Arch Aiken to be known as "Mistaken Aiken"--suggested by local Bolsheviki, well known to Arch after their many verbal encounters. (Despite press notices to the contrary Arch reported a quiet weekend on Manhattan last week; and he went mainly because "the train affords plenty of time for the Manual and Memo...
Caught in the act was arch Aiken, the Virginia playboy, who spent a vigilant week-end watching and waiting for Humph Bogart and Lauren Bacall to check in at the Gotham, Arch's big-town hang-out. His patience was not rewarded and friend Aiken had ot settle with a train ride confab with his fellow UVA man, T. B. Perry, 3rd. Old Neil Summers carrot-thatched New Yorker, found the rails a little too boresome and took to the air this week. The result was near disaster, but "Corney" promises better results in the future...
...Churchill's son-in-law, Minister of Works Duncan Sandys, announced that V-1 was licked. Before they stopped coming on March 27, 1,050 rockets had killed 2,754 people, seriously injured 6,523, damaged an untold number of buildings (including a million-dollar cinema at Marble Arch). Last week Churchill was asked in Parliament if he had an announcement to make about V2. Mindful of Duncan Sandys' unfortunate experience, he answered: "They have ceased." Then he sat down...
...Gare d'Orsay reception center, a bas-relief of women with arms flung wide illustrates the legend Salut les copains (Welcome, Pals). Under a so-foot-high triumphal arch of crossed Allied flags are other bas-reliefs, each with a two-word legend illustrating the new-found (and realistically French) freedoms; the second word in each case is librement (freely) and the verbs are: jouer, travailler, parler, aimer, dormir, manger, boire and respirer (play, work, speak, love, sleep, eat, drink and breathe...
...Eastern should acquire Grace's half control of Panagra, it would still not be free of arch-rival Pan Am. The reason: Pan Am owns the other half of Panagra...