Word: boon
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Part Score. Dramatically, Part I beats Part II all hollow. It is more tightly knit, it moves with greater speed and swell, and it traces the upward curve of most of its characters' destinies. Falstaff, still the boon companion of the errant, frivoling Prince Hal, swaggers and swills in rich midsummer plenty. In a flare of eloquence and arms, the rebellion against Henry IV, led by the heedless, dauntless Hotspur, progresses to the plains of Shrewsbury, where the day is lost...
...touch them if she did, because of the amount of liquor involved. In our March 1943 issue we ran a story by Craig Rice . . . which featured that hard-drinking little criminal lawyer, John J. Malone, whom readers of Craig Rice's books will remember as Jake Justus' boon and bar companion. In other words, he is no teetotaler at any time...
...latest news on artificial limbs came from an unusual quarter. Boon Stiles, 38, a veteran of the Casablanca landing, landed in San Quentin in 1944 for writing a bad check for $54. There he took up his old hobby-making artificial limbs...
...only one change in the tentative starting lineup: Charley Roche, 175-pound Freshman back from Winchester, replaces Bill Jackson in the tailback position. Right end Don Swegan will not be ready for tomorrow's game. HARVARD COAST GUARD DeLuzio, le le, Reed Fisher, lt lt, Brandfass Allen, lg lg, Boon Faber, c c, Burke LeBart, rg rg, Prunski Foster, rt rt, Starr Champion, re re, Caldwell Tennant, qb qb, Gaither Roche, lhb lhb, Duin Flynn, rhb rhb, Lattin Cowen, fb fb, Dorsey...
Last week science promised motorists another postwar boon: synthetic inner tubes that will hold air ten times as long as natural rubber, will need to be inflated only three or four times a year, and will run on nicely for miles after a puncture...