Word: gale
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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This time Hope & Crosby are stowaways on a Brazil-bound steamer. Dorothy Lamour is a wealthy maiden in distress, amply surrounded by Gale Sondergaard and associated heavies. Miss Sondergaard, a hypnotist, has Dottie all set to marry a money-hunting louse the moment the boat reaches Rio. One gathers that the menaces are trying to snatch a fortune by this deal, but when the time comes for explanations, Crosby calmly tears up "The Papers" that would make everything clear and says with a leer, "The world must never know...
...storm drove steadily on. In the Midwest, temperatures fell to zero or below. In Chicago, nine steel radio towers buckled and fell in eight hours as a gale roared across Lake Michigan. Maine was peppered with hailstones as big as buckshot. Buffalo was treated to lightning and thunderclaps. A collier broke from its pier at North Weymouth, Mass., was blown across the Fare River, crashed into another wharf...
...black as a sweep; she picked him up and he fainted. She fetched brandy and gave him some in a spoon and he revived. She put him out of doors and his mother flew down and collected him. I once picked up a tawny owl after a gale; he was apparently dead, but he came round after some time spent on hot pipes. It is surprising what warmth will...
...stars Captain Bob Gale and lanky Ed Peterson, used their respective six-six and six-nine heights to the very best advantage, controlled both backboards most of the evening, and split 36 points evenly between them...
Adams House will start the week's festivities on Friday with a gale Christmas dinner for Gold Coasters and their Indies, followed by a production of Thurber's "Male Animal." Dancing will conclude the evening's celebration. Dunster will be competing with Adams that night as the two Houses present the same bill. Their dramatic falcuts will be concentrated on Outon's "Peace in Our Time," starting Heleu MeCleskey...