Word: holes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...place. His father, who had been an officer in the German Imperial Navy, had transformed the best room of the apartment into a replica of a U-boat. Each evening a sacred ritual took place. The father would assemble the whole family to "sink Englishmen." Through a circular hole (all that was left of the window) he would push a kind of telescope; bells rang, red and green lights flashed, and everybody roared commands through megaphones. When it was over and three English cruisers were sunk, I was asked how I liked it. I told them, frankly, that I thought...
...emerges as perhaps the pleasantest offering of Co-Director Le Gallienne's struggling new American Repertory Theater. In a clever stage version that includes the best of Through the Looking Glass-that indeed begins with Alice stepping through the looking glass rather than down the rabbit hole-much of Lewis Carroll's frabjous, daydreaming keeps its mischievous logic and its magic lure...
With a big wad burning a hole in his pocket, Paul F. Clark, president of Boston's John Hancock Mutual Life Insurance Co., dropped in on Los Angeles. He wanted to invest his company's cash in a new housing project which house-hungry Los Angeles badly needed. But last week Clark decided against it; he saw clouds ahead for even Sunkist Angelenos. Said he: "We can't help solve your housing problem because of your real-estate inflation. An insurance company can't invest in blown-up values. Real estate is more inflated in California...
...Allen persistently regards himself as "just a man who can write good comedy lines." This certainty about his limitations descends, like a black hole, to the bottom of his brain. It allows the very basis of his thinking a cold, immediate access to the facts of living. Certainly few entertainers are so comfortlessly close to reality as Allen; still fewer are crowded so hard by sanity. Often his wit appears to be a cushion against hard fact. More often it seems an act of reprisal. He hurls it, rich with cyanic rancors, in the face of sham wherever he sees...
...Galtsoff has a practical objective: protecting U.S. oyster beds from snails, which eat about $6,000,000 worth of oysters each year. The drills gnaw a hole in the oyster shell with a filelike organ called a "radula"; then they insert the toothed front end of their stomach and nibble the oyster away. Conchs do their dirty work on the edge of oyster shells. When all the oysters have been eaten, they file holes in one another...