Word: facings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Bill's Wild West troupe in the year 1890, he was there in spirit only. Wild Bill was killed on the afternoon of Aug. 2, 1876 in the Number Ten Saloon in Deadwood, Dakota Territory, by Nonentity Jack McCall. The carets Bill was holding fell to the floor face up-aces and eights, known ever after as the "dead man's hand...
...Thames near .Waterloo Station, all keep alive old memories. Some might acknowledge that the moment was not propitious for old grudges, but the Tory Telegraph, for one, was adamant: "Dr. Adenauer's verbal explosion, tactless as it may seem, has the virtue of forcing both countries to face unwelcome truths while there is still time to moderate the harm they...
What got everybody burned up for fair was Ava's refusal to show up at two scheduled press conferences; then she irritated photographers by rarely appearing in public without a newspaper or purse to hide her pretty face. In answer, the papers served up juicy stories of a roaring party in Melbourne, Ava's bitter argument over her hotel room: it was newly decorated, but she insisted that it be done again with expensive English wallpaper. So sore was the Melbourne Truth (circ. 120.000) that it printed a shot of Ava emerging from the surf bedraggled and clutching...
...battle was only starting. In Sydney a daily Sun reporter charged that he had walked up to Ava at a local pub and got a drink of champagne in his face, and the glass with it. Said he: "As I stood there dripping amid shattered glass, she gave me her views on the press in gutter language running mostly to fundamental four-letter words." Newsmen reported that she expressed the same views in roughly the same terms about the city of Melbourne to a nonplused officer of the aircraft carrier Melbourne, lent to the moviemakers by the Australian navy...
Undefeated in regular season play, the varsity lacrosse team will face its first Ivy League competition against Cornell at Ithaca this afternoon. Last season, the Big Red dealt a crushing blow to the Crimson's Ivy League hopes when they toppled the varsity 7 to 1 in a game Coach Bruce Munro called "one of the sloppiest I have ever seen...