Word: happeners
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...ring's reply was characteristic: if that should happen, he would send a special airplane to drop a wreath at Sir Nevile's funeral...
Niels Schmidt, an innkeeper on the tiny Danish island of Romb, mile and a half north of the long German sandspit called Sylt which Adolf Hitler set apart in 1933 as a "bird sanctuary," knew something remarkable was going to happen one night last week when, at 8:15 p.m., two big airplanes came diving down over him through the low-lying clouds "with crazy speed." They were headed for List, the settlement in Sylt's northern tip, whence (as all Danes know) most birds and all fishermen long since moved out to make way for a Nazi seaplane...
...happen to know that per population Helena is the richest city in the U. S. next to Washington, D. C.? That there are still lots of millionaires in this "hovel"? That the miners and ranchers around here are plenty rich ? That...
Suppose you bumped into a person while skating and knocked that person down, what would you say?-"I'd say, 'Accidents will happen...
...respect the selflessness of medical science, to see human weakness and social bigotry through the struggles of its dedicated professionals. Background for Lewis' new novel is the author's five-year experience with the professional theatre, first as a collaborator (Jayhawker and It Can't Happen Here), later as an actor-playwright (Angela Is Twenty-Two), member of Equity and player in the summer theatre and on the road. What Lewis has found to respect this time is the art of the theatre, and again it is something he has been living with...