Word: groves
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When they moved him from London to his aunt's house in Hampshire, he knew he was dying, but still he ordered the secret kept. He was too proud to ask for sympathy. He lay in a room whose windows looked out on a grove of larch trees, with placid fields beyond. His wife stayed with him. Occasionally his thin lips curled back from his long, uneven teeth in a grimace of pain. Once a German airman flew over Oldharn Village and dropped a rack of bombs. One fell within 40 yards of where Chamberlain...
...flew to Libya, the other to a grove at Dodona in Greece. In the grove the latter proclaimed in human words the need for an oracle of Zeus on that spot...
...life of all theatre producers must be haunted by the vision of fitting the perfect play to the perfect cast as easily as Connle Mack could once call on Grove and Cochrane for his battery. Somehow the Theatre Guild has caught its vision by the shirt tails. William Shakespeare is the author, "Twelfth Night" the play; and Miss Helen Heyes and Mr. Maurice Evans are the principals. If Boston continues to leave empty seats in the "pit," as it did on opening night, it has surely passed its "Indian Summer" of appreciativeness and has come to a barren autumn...
...convention. This week, as a polite gesture to the assembled contesters, CBS's Professor Quiz will entertain on his program two hotshots of the organization: paper-thin, 28-year-old Everett Lane, founder and past president, and Joan Lambert, head of the All-American Contestar School of Willow Grove, Pa., which has about 2,000 students...
...great grove leans to wind, past...