Word: chees
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Make Way for Lucia (by John van Druten, based on E. F. Benson's novels; produced by the Theatre Guild) tells of a showoff English widow (Isabel Jeans) who settles down for the summer of 1912 in a buzzing English village. Christened Emmeline but always called Lu-chee-a, she also affects gaily soulful garments, ostentatiously moves from the easel to the pianoforte, dabbles in Italian, and occasionally drops into baby talk...
...skillful, experienced, and excusably languid. The picture's attractiveness, such as it is, comes from good sets nicely photographed, and from its deeply old-fashioned story and general treatment. But that, in turn, becomes pretty hard to bear; you fully expect a ragamuffin, religiously moved, to whisper Hully Chee...
...Died. Chee Dodge, 86, Chief of the Navajos, who for 62 years bossed and guided the nation's largest Indian tribe and the parched, poverty-stricken reservation (three times the size of Massachusetts) on which it lives; in Ganado, Ariz...
...fault: they took their children with them to tend sheep flocks. To round up students from a 50-mile radius, the day schools depended on buses. But poor roads, flash floods and wartime breakdowns held up the buses. Of 50 schools, 20 were closed during World War II. Chee says: "The schools tasted good. We want more...
...Chee insists that many once-reluctant Navajos are now eager to go to school. One explanation: the tribe-which furnished 3,000 men to the armed forces in World War II-was embarrassed by the hundreds of able-bodied Navajos turned down for lack of book learning...