Word: davenport
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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There is profane and swashbuckling Creed ("Burly") Burlingame, whose favorite procedure is to close with a Jap ship on the surface, damning her fire and sinking her with his deck gun. There is Roy Davenport, Burlingame's onetime executive officer, who prays devoutly, prowling beneath Jap waters with the firm belief that his torpedoes carry the benison of heaven...
...more than redeems the roaring bad taste of a Harlem number called Ice Cold Katie. > Ann Sheridan, as an experienced college girl, explaining in song, to a bevy of hastily dry-cleaned doves, "why every window has a window shade" and why "there's no partition in a davenport...
...Major General Davenport Johnson, a heavy-bomber man, became commander of the Eleventh Air Force (Alaska...
...when Texas weather was at its sultriest, an ambulance clanged up to the big downtown Gunter Hotel in San Antonio, picked up a pretty blonde, not over 19, who was lying on a davenport, got her to Robert B. Green Memorial Hospital just before her baby was born. Later that week the young mother was able to tell her story. She had come from a north Texas town four days earlier to rejoin her husband, a cadet at the San Antonio aviation cadet school. Tired and worn down after fruitless room-hunting, she had spent three nights in the ladies...
Married. Army Air Forces Captain Dean Davenport, 25, Tokyo raid copilot, squadron commander of South Carolina's Columbia Army air base; and Mary McMaster Lowry, 22, OPA secretary; in Columbia...