Word: cassone
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...throes of the nation's tremendous expansion as an industrial power. Similarly, in 1946, the city celebrated its role as an "industrial powerhouse" that played its part in America's triumph in the war. At that time, major industrial firms like Boston Woven Hose, Simplex Wire & Cable, Irving & Casson Furniture and the National Casket Co. employed thousands of industrial workers and sponsored most of the 1946 parade's floats...
...throes of the nation's tremendous expansion as an industrial power. Similarly, in 1946, the city celebrated its role as an "industrial powerhouse" that played its part in America's triumph in the war. At that time, major industrial firms like Boston Woven Hose, Simplex Wire & Cable, Irving & Casson Furniture and the National Casket Co. employed thousands of industrial workers and sponsored most of the 1946 parade's floats...
...office. Letterman does not give a rat's rump for historical truth. Tim Curtiz, a London-based journalist taking a crack at a lucrative script-writing assignment, does. The subject of the movie, called Masai Dreams, is a striking French anthropologist named Claudia Cohn-Casson, whose work among the Masai, and whose fate at the hands of the Nazis, illustrate the collapse of the 20th century's grandest assumptions about reason and scientific objectivity...
Curtiz pieces the Cohn-Casson story together from interviews with people who knew her in the '30s. An old Masai spiritual leader tells of his nephew who may have been Claudia's lover. A former British army officer describes his romance with Cohn-Casson and her return to Paris during the final months of World War II. Why would an intelligent, worldly Jew deliberately return to Hitler's Europe? While Curtiz is pursuing the answer in Kenya and Tanzania, Letterman is busy in Paris checking out every aspect of a celebrated French actress. She turns out to be a transsexual...
...Tigers displayed their upcoming talent, however, as Casson Masters took home the prestgious USAir ECAC Rookie of the Week award. Masters scored the game-winning goal and added another--not bad for his first college hockey contest...