Word: cart
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...days of an infernal journey, they brought us to the depths of Asia, the Kirghiz Steppes. There is no tree in view, nor even any grass anywhere. They have changed our station three times already, and we have now arrived here after two days' travel by ox cart...
...doesn't know that. She's also the star of Benny's show, and Uncle Allen doesn't know that. In the resultant tempest, Fred keeps losing his temper, Jack loses his shirt, and Mary shows them all up by losing her skirt. (Incidentally, it's a mighty nice cart that belong to Daddy.) Per usual, Rochester and Virginia steal the show. The dusky Juliet tolerates no playing around on her balcony after learning that Rochester has been elected star Romeo by all the ebony maidens of the Social and Come-What-May Club at Stratford on the Harlem...
...whom he used to hunt big game. His friend was Charlie Cottar of Garfield County, Okla., who migrated to East Africa. He went out in 1910, when he was past 40, and he took with him his wife and as much stuff as he could pack in a bullock cart. He cleared 1,000 acres and planted them to coffee, potatoes and sisal, but most of his time he spent as guide to big-game hunters such as Martin Johnson, the Prince of Wales, Phil Plant and the Aga Khan...
...Follies of 1941 has no such lovely ballet formations as Sonja Henie's show It Happens on Ice (TIME, Oct. 21), but the Follies' specialists are unsurpassable. Auburn-haired Evelyn Chandler does seemingly impossible cart wheels; Harris...
Even on the second day, war was almost fun. It was thrilling to see every taxi, truck, cart, bus and private auto in the town bumping off over the rough road that leads to Thebes and the fighting fronts north and west-vehicles carrying all able-bodied men from 20 to 43 years old. It was a lark to hear that 20 British aviators who had been interned when their planes landed in Greece were now released; and to carry them through the streets like heroes. It was stirring to crowd into Constitution Square before...