Word: goldens
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Marks P. Wangsness, a 27-year-old reservist; and 31 crewmen, some of whom were youngsters just recruited. Seaman Charles L. Eagleton, 24, after a test dive in shallow water, had recently written his father: "Everything went wrong, but we've got it under control now." Seaman Francis Golden had told his father that the O-9 had sprung 19 leaks, that "water poured into her right away" on her first runs. Seaman Nathan Gersen had told his family in The Bronx that everything was fine, including the eats, and that he was lucky to be as signed...
Daniel Saw the Stone (The Golden Gate Quartet; Okeh). The sort of exciting harmony and tempo usually heard only from colored spiritual singers in the remote Southeastern backwoods, and not in Manhattan nightclubs-where, it so happens, the Golden Gate Quartet does sing...
Responsible for adapting life at a fight camp to the exigencies of radio is a fantastic, Lardnerian character named Frank ("Red") Dolan, who was a Daily News ace in the Golden Age of Manhattan tabloids. Boston-born in 1898, he groomed himself for his career by heading to sea at 14, driving an army truck in New Jersey during World War I. After the war, he traveled to the Orient, worked on Dr. Sun Yat-sen's Shanghai Gazette, also served on the Far Eastern Review...
North Carolina's bright-leaf tobacco, "the golden weed" that normally puts $150,000,000 a year in the pockets of Tidewater farmers, was irreparably damaged. Forest fires, raging over 400,000 acres from the Blue Ridge to the coast, sent up white columns of smoke that were visible from the sea. In Jacksonville, N.C. an artesian well that had poured out 49 gallons of water a minute for 27 years went...
...there was no deliberate intent, the most I could have done in such a case would have been to take the round away from Louis as a warning. . . ." Said Promoter Mike Jacobs, seeing the golden lining in the cloud of dispute: "All I can say is that anybody who stays away from a Louis fight this year is crazy. Anything can happen." Louis' next opponents: Billy Conn (June 18), Abe Simon (July 23), Lou Nova (Sept. 17). Then the Baby Baer will probably get another chance at the champion...