Word: filed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...made famous by the late William Allen White as the archetypical U.S. small town, came a surprising fact: though the town has had no particular war boom, last year no less than 10% of the Senior High School's 640 pupils earned enough (i.e., $500) to make them file federal income-tax returns (64 reported paying taxes...
...play, The Male Animal, done in 1940 with Elliot Nugent. From time to time, he shows up at the New Yorker offices, to stand in the corridors and shout "Nuts!" He still tells friends that he is "being followed softly by little men padding along in single file, about a foot and a half high, large-eyed, and whiskered...
...baffled jailers guessed that they had made a lock impression for their keys with wet cigaret papers, had formed them with a hidden sliver of nail file. Recalling the accuracy of Cook's prediction, they thought uneasily of another of his announcements...
...there is much less entertainment these days in a France where only trained polar bears would find trouping comfortable. In addition to a limited, valiant rank-&-file, there are just two top-rank entertainers: Katharine Cornell and Marlene Dietrich. But Cornell, with a production of The Barretts of Wimpole Street (co-starring Brian Aherne), and Dietrich, with a live-wire troupe, are both doing the work...
...Once a knot of ten or twelve grey-blue figures bursts out of the thickets just above a Japanese pillbox and goes tumbling down atop it with bayonets ready to clear it. The men seem hurried, fast, awkward. About 3 o'clock we make out a long file of Chinese infantrymen crawling along through the undergrowth, still invisible to the enemy, 300 yards above them. Then they, too, disappear...