Word: gales
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...Letter (Bette Davis, Herbert Marshall, James Stephenson, Gale Sondergaard; TIME...
...relentless, silent hunt of vast proportions was afoot last week. The field was the gale-blasted barrens of the North Atlantic Ocean. The hunters were patient, powerful units of the Royal Navy, equipped with aircraft which soared ceaselessly like gulls of vengeance far up the shores of Greenland and Iceland, high over the crinkled fjords of farthest Norway. They hunted a killer-the German surface raider, probably the pocket battleship Admiral Scheer or Lützow, which last fortnight fell upon a big British convoy in Lat. 52°N., Long. 32°W., halfway between Newfoundland and Eire (TIME...
...Boston, to call on you & be your Friend. He is a Man of Spirit and will take care of you, but don't let me see you 'till you have wip'd away this Disgrace. ... On board the Ganges about 12 Mos. ago, Lt. Gale was struck by an Officer of the Navy. The Capt. took no notice of the Business and Gale got no satisfaction on the cruise; the moment he arrived he call'd the Lieut, out and shot him; afterwards Politeness was restored." Few days later "the Business" was settled to Colonel Burrows...
...Joey had most of its lyrics and all its tunes written last week; Cabin In the Sky was ready to open this week; Hi' Ya Gentlemen was about to go into rehearsal. At this point, Cole Porter's Panama Hattie was rocking Boston audiences with its lewd gale before sweeping on to Manhattan. Composer Porter's shows-Jubilee, Red, Hot and Blue, Du Barry Was a Lady-are notable for being often the funniest, often the most risque in the business. Very fast, very funny and energized by the leading popular songstress of the period, Panama Hattie...
...gale whipped white saliva on to the sharp tongues of the Channel rip, and fog set in thick about Dover, Winston Churchill turned the House over to First Lord of the Admiralty A. V. Alexander. As the Prime Minister leaned busily over some notes, the First Lord announced that the destroyers bought from the U. S. would be given names of towns which lie in both Britain and the U. S., that the first flotilla would be given the initial C, and that the flotilla leader would be called Churchill. The Prime Minister busily leaned and fumbled, but the bald...