Word: bee
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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James's own first choices, harking back to the days when his father taught him classic circus numbers, are probably his trumpet arrangements of music-master favorites (Flight of the Bumble Bee, Carnival of Venice, et al.) His biggest Success Secret is the astute James theory that wartime fans, tired of pure heat, now want their heartstrings twanged. Other heartthrob Success Secrets in James's band: Helen Forrest, throb-voiced torcheuse, who copes as smoothly with wacky songs as with moon-June lyrics; Johnny McAfee, vocalist, and Corky Corcoran, sax wizard...
Hero Coe left her for a flawlessly lovely pianist, with a mouth "well-shaped and bee-blown and neatly outlined in some wet red unguent." Her name was Roxane. When she began to romp with Abner, Roxane neglected to mention that she had married his best friend. So after Abner went to war, he spent his furloughs pursuing her through the back streets of married love. The U.S. State Department in Paris decided Abner should be given U.S. papers. He made his way to safety in America, while Roxane and her husband died as hostages before a Nazi firing squad...
There have been irritations, and there will doubtless be more. Clashes on high policy and procedure often enliven staff conferences, cause many a private cussing bee. U.S. pilots and crews, training with British units, find unaccustomed formalities and shibboleths in R.A.F. mess life, and sometimes they offend British sensibilities. At every stage of air operation, from training to combat, the R.A.F. and the Army Air Forces think and act differently. Now, within the tight confines of Britain, all these differences must be fitted into one operational pattern...
...eight years ago most U.S. doctors paid little attention to arthritis. Typical treatments included injection of streptococcic and typhoid vaccines, dietary fads, bee venom serum, manipulation of gnarled hands and joints. Such treatments have now been largely discarded. More important, several different forms of arthritis have been clearly distinguished, each with its special therapy. Three recently developed blood tests also indicate what sort of arthritis a patient...
Reaction. In Coffeyville, Kans., a taxpayer walked into the county treasurer's office to find out what he owed. When he was told, he ran away screaming, eventually got rid of a bee that had gotten inside his shirt...