Word: comer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...delighted by a private settlement in which the pomps of diplomacy were not involved. Mr. Sayre talked it over with Ambassador Saito at the Japanese Embassy. Dr. Murchison proceeded to organize a committee. At high noon the day before Christmas, President Murchison, Manufacturers Harry Bailey of New York, Donald Comer of Alabama, Casson Callaway of Georgia and Cotton's Editor Bob Philip sailed from San Francisco for Japan...
...Free. There is Henrietta Brill, a fat girl with Communist tendencies. There is Miriam Robbins who shamefully chases after Pinkie Aaronson, who owns two hat shops, wears solid silk pajamas and has a way with the "pigeons" (girls). There is good-hearted Fay Fromkin, whose girl friend, a late comer, is Teddy Stern (Katherine Locke). Teddy, an unsure, shy little typist with a great desire for gentility, is glad to get away from home for the first time, glad to escape her mother's nagging about the way Sam Rappaport jilted her after they had been going steady...
Centering the third line will be Joe Patrick, sophomore and a new-comer to Crimson hockey, who is a tricky, but not too fast, skater. The veteran John Callaway will hold down the left wing position while Freddie deRahm, another Sophomore, will team with him from the right...
Second sight of Bury the Dead confirmed critical opinion that Irwin Shaw is a comer. His play is a passionate rewrite of Austrian Hans Chlumberg's Miracle at Verdun, produced by the Theatre Guild in 1931. During "the second year of the war that is to begin tomorrow night," a burial detail of U. S. soldiers is shocked when six corpses rise from their trench grave, refuse to be interred. "Maybe," guesses one of the living dead, "there's too many of us under the ground now. Maybe the earth can't stand it no more...
...Europe today, the. comer upon whom all wise eyes were cocked last week, is Pierre Etienne Flandin, big bald Premier of France and the youngest man in his own Cabinet...