Word: floodings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Resourceful, ruthless and self-assured, Goya rode the crest of this cloacal flood. A ram-headed man of enormous appetites, he ate himself to the verge of apoplexy, begot 20 legitimate children (only one survived the plague-ridden rigors of Spanish life), became the lover of the beautiful and powerful Duchess of Alba, a favorite of the harlot Queen, the most sought-after society portraitist of his time...
...does not roll on steadily like a river. Its campaigns rise and ebb like the tides. Last week Europe waited the great flood tides of spring: a probable campaign in the Balkans (see below), an almost certain assault on Britain. But these tides had not yet begun to rise for the tides of winter still receded. In Albania the Greek wave still lapped at the battered Italian Army-after weeks of siege Klisura fell and Mussolini once more changed commanders. In Libya the British campaign still rolled on (see p. 25), but it had been won before Bardia was reached...
...stained Kentuckian, Burridge Davenal Butler, bought Prairie Farmer from Rand McNally & Co., who then owned it. As a 21-year-old reporter he had covered the Johnstown Flood, by the time he was 30 had turned a down-at-heels Grand Rapids paper into a valuable property. After starting three papers of his own (all called The Daily News) in Omaha, St. Paul, Minneapolis, buying into the Kansas City World, Des Moines News, at 40 he had retired to take life easy. No more a farmer than Editor Wright, he bought Prairie Farmer to keep from being bored...
...risk of having my Lone Ranger badge taken away for being a member of the Fifth Column, I'd like to talk about the flood of patriotic songs that the factories in Tin Pan Alley have been turning out recently...
...carry on the battle for over a year, ASCAP's Broadway-wise president, old Songwriter Gene Buck, was feeling pretty pleased with himself. Lucky Strike's Hit Parade he called the "bit parade." Meanwhile B. M. I. President Neville Miller, hero-mayor of the 1937 Louisville flood, boasted that many a station had been complimented on "the freshness and adequacy of B. M. I. music." Some listeners reacted otherwise. Ten thousand musicians, composers, educators signed petitions asking FCC to knock both B. M. I.'s and ASCAP's heads together so that radio listeners would have...