Word: caves
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...write this story, in this cave that is our operations room, a red arrow on the map indicates that Jap planes are bombing the town of Kao-yao, 40 miles outside of Canton. Evidently they are so mad at being caught by us that they are taking it out on the helpless Chinese villages...
...from Worcester, Mass., named David Horowitz, who believes that "it was the word of God that brought Mr. Carter and myself together." The two met after Horowitz' return from the Holy Land, where he became a disciple of Moses Guibbory, who settled down as a hermit in a cave near Jerusalem and claimed discovery of a "secret code" to the Bible's original meaning. Carter contributed to the hermit's expenses, took up Hebrew...
...Grew, a young Boston-Groton-Harvard-man, crawled into a cave in China and shot a tiger just four feet in front of him. This feat so impressed Theodore Roosevelt that, although he was leary of Boston snobbery in the diplomatic service, he appointed Joe Grew clerk to the consul general in Cairo...
Peter the Athonite came first to Mount Athos in the 9th Century and lived there for 50 years, battling devils and beasts in a cave high above Homer's wine-dark sea. Then came Euthemius and Joseph, who sought eternal bliss by moving about on their hands and knees eating grass. All this was centuries after Xerxes' legions invaded Greece, and, of course, centuries before Nazi Panzer divisions...
...season's biggest gold mines were Let's Face It! and Sons o' Fun; its worst cave-in, The Lady Comes Across (a $200,000 musicalamity). Only producers to have had more than one hit were the Shuberts, but Gilbert Miller headed the mourners' bench with three flops. Movie money in general was tight, even though The Moon Is Down (because of its success as a book) went to 20th Century-Fox for a record $300,000, Let's Face It! to Paramount...