Word: forested
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Brazil headlined: "Starving Negroes Can't Eat Racial Equality." Despite the fact that her show folded before it reached Broadway, Ebony's 19-year-old pin-up girl Sheila Guys (caption: "A Star Fizzles") benefits from Johnson's all-round cheeriness: "Folks back home in Forest, Miss. are betting she'll turn up again one of these days out in Hollywood...
...spring-fever time in the enchanted forest-scene of James Thurber's latest excursion into the world of fantasy. The rabbits tipped their heads, as men tip their hats, "removing them with their paws and putting them back again." A pink comet flashed by, missing the world by inches. The air was full of the tinkling of musical mud, the roar of barking trees, the flight of wingless birds. In fact, everything was just as usual...
...none of them could tell King Clode what to do about the white deer he had trapped in the forest, and which had suddenly changed into a beautiful princess. And when they saw the way the princess nibbled lettuce, they could not promise the King that she wouldn't change back any minute...
That night in their newspapers Romans read of extraordinary events at Umberto's Castel Porziano estate south of Rome. The story: forest fires had broken out simultaneously at several points, apparently set to trap Umberto's son, the eight-year-old Prince of Naples...
...Berlin the U.S. Army got tough with municipal officers. A month ago the Army had told city officials to get the people out rounding up wood to heat their homes this winter. Berlin's Oberbürgermeister dallied, spoke of combining wood-gathering with regular forest thinning. Last week U.S. soldiers rounded up laborers in Berlin, packed them off to Grunewald. There they were given saws and axes, told to get busy. They...