Word: haring
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Pemberton) is the funniest and most likable fantasy that Broadway has seen in years. Described in one sentence, this yarn about a balmy tosspot who knows an imaginary outsized rabbit named Harvey may suggest all the horrors of relentless whimsy. Distributed over three acts, Elwood P. Dowd and the hare of the dog that bit him become a delightful adventure in wackiness...
Black Terms. In short, the U.S. had to make good suddenly on its Four Freedoms money. Why? Month ago, the New York Times's Anne O'Hare McCormick wrote: "The money situation [in Italy] is a nightmare. . . . It worries . . . the Allied commissions even more than the shortages of food." Britain's Ministry of Economic Warfare reported: "Italy's financial condition can hardly be described in black enough terms." The black terms: Italy's national debt, now more than 650 billion lire, is still soaring. Bank notes in circulation have doubled since the Allied invasion...
Reported New York Times Correspondent Anne O'Hare McCormick from Rome last week: "A story is going the rounds of a lanky, soft-voiced Texan in a large group of soldiers received by the Pope in a recent audience. First in line, he didn't quite know what to do when the Holy Father offered his ring to be kissed. So he shook the Pontiff's outstretched hand and said politely, as nice boys do in Texas, 'Hi yah, Mister Pope...
...Love of Life that flows through the books Brooks has written since his recovery is a quality that had been missing from American literature since its greatest days. Brooks once wrote of Llewelyn Powys, who recovered from tuberculosis, that he was like a hare that had escaped the hunter, or a trout that had escaped the hook "and now exults in the sun-soaked earth and windswept water." The phrase is truer of his own writing. The mellow humor that pervades it and the good-natured approval of the people, of their work, their strivings, the pleasure in their triumphs...
...daughter. And Marchesa Vastezza-the former Bobbie Belchers of New York. And Baroness Carogna-the former Josephine Paddle-ford of Waukegan and Washington, D.C. And the Countess del Sgombro-who was Daphne Zugsmith of St. Paid. And of course, the Marchesa Sconciatura, who was the former Bridget O'Hare of Worcester, Mass...