Word: heart
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Hasty Pudding Theatricals, having finished a week of auditions, last night announced the names of the leading characters in this year's musical comedy, "Heart of Gold...
Reporter Guthman, a husky young (30) Purple Heart veteran of the Italian cam paign and a University of Washington graduate who had been covering the Can-well hearings for two years, started his digging by driving to Canyon Creek...
Died. Edward R. Stettinius Jr., 49, U.S. industrialist (General Motors, U.S. Steel), onetime (1944-45) U.S. Secretary of State, later rector of the University of Virginia; of a heart ailment; in Greenwich, Conn, (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS...
Died. Vladimir Hurban, 66, Czechoslovakia's veteran diplomat, onetime minister (1936-43) and ambassador (1943-46) to the U.S., who in 1939 refused the German demand that he surrender his embassy, thereafter stood as a wartime symbol of resistance to Naziism; of a heart ailment; in Prague...
Graves's tale (based on historical fact) tells how vapid General Mendaña y Castro set sail from Callao, Peru with four ships to take possession of the dimly known Solomons and to convert the heathen -mostly into cash. But the heart of the book, like that of any pirate story, is Graves's evocation of the murderous plotting and quarreling that enlivened the long and miserable voyage: its sailors, soldiers, settlers and missionaries fall on one another (and on the hapless islanders) with a ferocity inspired equally by high zeal and abysmal greed...