Word: havoc
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Philadelphia was touted by Judge L. Stauffer Oliver. Colorado University's whip-smart Robert Stearns cried havoc on his coastal rivals for tidal waves, earthquakes and tornadoes. Tongue in cheek, San Francisco's urbane Mayor Roger Lapham recalled being frozen fast in the harbors of both Boston and Philadelphia in his early yachting days...
...Love Letters, a romance about amnesia. A psychologist claimed that Superman provided a beneficent Aristotelian catharsis ; a Jesuit saw in him a fascist archetype. Young girls tried to look like Bacall with a dash of Hepburn. Their elders went in for cosmetics with manic names like Fatal Apple and Havoc. They also favored detachable daintiness features and phantom crotches. In ads as expressive as dreams, fathers forfeited their children's love because of denture breath, and women exclaimed: "Don't expect me to marry you with a mouthful of cavities...
...citizen, as well as to every statesman, the victory of peace had a solemn urgency it had never had before. In London, Winston Churchill said: "We must indeed pray that these awful agencies will be made to conduce to peace among nations and that, instead of wreaking measureless havoc upon the entire globe, they may become the perennial fountain of world prosperity...
...June Havoc, pert musicomedienne who broke her kneecap last summer during a performance of Mexican Hayride, showed the injured member to interested doctors at New York State Workmen's Compensation Bureau, demanded more compensation for depletion of a capital asset. Paying customers, she explained, "expect to see my knees. I can't turn or kick and all I do is fake a few jitterbug steps...
...various ways last week the public got behind the drive. In Chicago Musi-comedienne June Havoc auctioned off two pairs of nylons at $1,300 worth of bonds a pair. The three survivors of the six-man detail which posed for the famed flag-raising picture on Iwo Jima - Pfc. Rene Gagnon, Pfc. Ira Hayes and Pharmacist's Mate John Bradley - rode through the rain to inspire the cheering citizens of Boston. In Tampa, a 75-mm. cannon boomed hourly from Plant Park. In Indianapolis, Mayor Robert Tyndall gave "the order of the day": Over the top. Indianapolis. Cheyenne...