Word: gene
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...cemetery ] named Oakmont or Woodland." And where Sir Walter failed, estate agents of the boom 1920s often succeeded. The town of Mosquito became Troutdale, Zigzag switched to Rhododendron, Screamerville to Chancellor, Bee Pee to the more progressive Chevrolet. Recently named post offices include XRay, Radio, Gasoline, Tarzan, Gene Autry...
...most ways a better picture than its carbon copy. United Artists knew a good thing when they saw it, and they took large chunks--still recognizable shots, and in some cases apparently the very same sets--of the French original as a backdrop for Boyer, Lamarr, Sigrid Gurie, and Gene Lockbart...
Before he enlisted in 1943, black-haired, velvet-eyed Johnny sang with Bob Crosby and Gene Krupa. Then he signed up as a drummer-the Army does not admit "singer" as a musical classification-with Glenn Miller's Air Forces Band. (Major Miller has been missing since a December England-to-Paris flight, but the band continues to bear his name.) Desmond's G.I. job, which he is apparently doing sensationally well, is singing. His I'll Be Seeing You and Long Ago and Far Away, in phonetic French, makes young Parisians jump up & down, squeal "Bravo...
...Georgia would never have thrown off this feudal custom had it not been for its young (37) and energetic Governor Ellis Gibbs Arnall. Having spent two years ridding his state of the influences left by gallus-snapping Gene Talmadge, Governor Arnall jumped into the poll-tax battle with both feet...
Among the ace runners who have volunteered to race the treadmill are Glenn Cunningham, Gil Dodds, Gene Fenske, and Gunder Haegg. Haegg astounded the doctors by turning in a better performance running 11 miles an hour than an ordinary man can at seven. They described the lanky Swede as "the most beautiful running machine" they had seen...