Word: cocoanuts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...spark." He loves volunteer firefighting, has wangled a fire department sign for his car so he can drive right up to the fire lines. He also carries an honorary police commissioner's gold badge, likes to loaf around police headquarters. During Boston's 1942 Cocoanut Grove fire, in which 492 died, Fiedler was stationed at a morgue. During the war, like many other Bostonians over military age, he took his turn on small Coast Guard Auxiliary craft patrolling Boston Harbor...
Allport cited the study of Dr. Erich Lindemann of the Massachusetts General Hospital after the Cocoanut Grove fire to illustrate that continued suppression of feelings often produces strain and tension in the individual personality. He added that such a state can develop into a complex of a serious order...
Geddes found the 500-room hotel, with its swimming pool, junior-size golf course and famed Cocoanut Grove cabaret, completely lacking in "coherence and good taste." The hotel's circular marquee looked to him like one of the "30 or 40 hot-dog stands in the immediate area." As for the Cocoanut Grove, "you don't have to have drab palm trees . . . Does the Pump Room have a pump...
...Tail Is Better." At 14, at prep school: "Hurrah, Hurrah, Hurrah. Groton 46-St. Marks 0. I am hoarse, deaf, and ready to stand on my cocoanut. Our team played a wonderful game." Sara Delano Roosevelt sent him stamped, self-addressed envelopes to make sure that he would write often...
Twitchy & Bouncy. In 1932, Jackie Smith, then 16, sat in Los Angeles' Cocoanut Grove gaping at Bing Crosby and the Rhythm Boys. Then & there he swore an oath: "I'm going to make it my life's work to get on that stage." Within three months, Jack's life's work was completed, when he and two other high-school kids were signed to sing at the Grove. Twelve years later, Jack was still a promising young crooner. Last week his twitchy, bouncy tenor was being gargled for its third consecutive year...