Word: dover
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Although Americans may wonder why (Bob Hope, who was born in England, confesses: "It's too fast for me"), ITMA doubles up its British listeners. Puns like "Farewell to the night shifts of Dover" or "the lease lend the soonest mended" are a Handley trademark. So are topical quips like "I haven't laughed so much since Errol Flynn captured Burma." ITMA's rapid-fire cacophony of explosions, whistles, popguns, yawps, quacks and trambells draws enthusiastic letters from Continental listeners, who can't understand English, but find the sound effects screamingly funny...
When Producer Firth Shephard begged her to take Arsenic on tour to get away from the bombs, she murmured: "Where do you suggest we start, dear - Dover?" When crusty Critic James Agate saluted her with "You are still the second most beautiful woman on the English stage," she purred: "That's quite a compliment, from the second-best critic in England." Once, leafing through an album, she came across a picture, taken ten years before, of a much younger rival actress. She studied it a moment, then sighed: "My, my, hasn't she aged...
...problems of peace in Europe. One year ago last week the first three buzz-bombs fell on England. They injured 52 people, killed eight. They meant that Britain in a military (and hence in a political) sense had almost ceased to be an island, that the North Sea, Dover Strait and the English Channel, which for centuries had served England "in the office of a wall, or as a moat defensive to a house," had for purpose of war shriveled to a trickle. Henceforth, unless a defense as effective as rocket bombs could be developed, Britain was within shattering range...
Favorite drugs were "mercurials, calomel, opium, niter, Glauber's salts, Dover's powders, jalap, Peruvian bark-and by the 1840s, quinine" in heroic doses. One doctor reported a patient who took so much calomel that his teeth fell out, then the upper and lower jawbones came out "in the form of horse shoes." One treatment for the ague involved putting the patient in a draft between two cabins, stripping off his clothes, pouring cold water over him until he had a "pretty powerful smart chance of a shake...
Robert E. Rayle, Atlanta, Georgia; Robert B. Ross, Jacksonville, Florida; Kendall G. Russell, Worcester; Peter B. Scamans, Salem; Ralph M. Swanson, Winchester; Walter H. Trumbull, Jr., Weston; Mark Tuttle, Dover, New Hampshire; George A. Van Pelt, Sellersburg, Indiana; Vincent H. Vicario, Providence; Norman S. Walker, Jr., Peapack, New Jersey; Rolf C. Walther, Roselle, New Jersey; Francis deS. Woidich, Cambridge; and Richard W. Zamore, Montclair, New Jersey...