Word: ende
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...week's end, Xochimilco's water level had risen to 15 inches. The boats were out again, with fresh flowers spelling out their names, Juanita and Maria, Esmeralda and Flor. Old Pacheco, poling a load of tourists along a canal, waved airily to his son Tomas, who was passing in the canoa Laura. "We're not finished yet, are we?" he shouted...
...image was most unattractive . . ." Dorothy even made threats to sue for "plenty . . . Imagine putting on that horrible-sounding mess and telling everybody I was doing it . . ." Said Milton, through his lawyers: "She is unfamiliar with the actual facts . . ." Then he began trying, still unsuccessfully at week's end, to get Dorothy to appear in person on his next show...
...muggy season was setting in for Broadway's 18 surviving shows, and the U.S. theater got ready again last week to take to the country. By month's end, in such unlikely pastures as Fish Creek, Wis. and Woods Hole, Mass., more than 200 summer playhouses will sprout across the land. By Labor Day, they should yield a multimillion-dollar harvest-and more acting jobs than three Manhattan seasons...
Jockey Ted Atkinson knew Capot's peculiarities like a book: "If some other horse cuts out a dizzy pace, he is bull-headed enough to want to run him down. If you take a hold on him, trying to save something for the end, he gets ornery and won't run at all." At the start of last week's long Belmont Stakes, toughest test of U.S. racing's "Triple Crown," Atkinson hustled Capot into the lead and prayed that nobody would press...
...Controversy. Dr. Elmer L. Henderson, of Louisville, Ky., chairman of the Board of Trustees, handed out the black spot toward the end of the dull opening session of the House of Delegates in the Hotel Traymore's white and gold American room. Dr. Henderson, later named president-elect in a cut & dried election, began his report on "the activities of the editor" with an admission that "the board ... is aware of the criticism of the editor." Fishbein's name was not mentioned until the next-to-last paragraph. Then there was a suave tribute to his "genius...