Word: fronte
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...hour later, he was pounding out a story on a typewriter in his cell-first of a ten-day series called "Jailed." Admirers sent Leech a well-stocked refrigerator, fresh linen, flowers and cigars, and a faithful reader brought her daughter to recite the Declaration of Independence in front of his cell door...
...ardent worker on numerous Communist front organizations, he made his latest major contribution to the cause by serving as chairman of the pro-Communist Cultural and Scientific Conference for World Peace in New York's Waldorf-Astoria last March (TIME, April...
...Roseanna opens, all is quiet on the Hatfield-McCoy front. Over in West Virginia, the hot-tempered, hard-drinking Hatfields are helling about after bear and possum in their own backyard. On the Kentucky side of the Big Sandy River, the hard-working McCoys are peaceably tending their taters and corn. But the armistice is not to last. When young Johnse Hatfield (Farley Granger) falls in love with Roseanna McCoy (Joan Evans) and carries her off to be his bride, hell breaks loose on the border. In no time at all, every Hatfield in the hills is blazing away...
Slow Burn. In Westerly, R.I., Mrs. Carrie M. Crandall wrote to the city clerk of Worcester, Mass, with a complaint: "About 1889 or 1890 I fell into an open coal chute in front of the Hotel Pleasant...and I think the city should pay me something for my injuries...
...country, selling in China as "Smooth Sea's Pregnancy Womb Birth-Giving Magical 100 Per Cent Effective Water." Perhaps its crowning triumph came in 1944, when an Army chaplain took some snapshots of South Pacific natives just liberated from the Japanese. One picture showed a native woman in front of a thatched jungle hut, surrounded by her possessions-meager indeed, but among them one bottle of Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound, the grandmotherly face on the label mild and benign as ever...