Word: hood
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Harvard alumnus the boy-hood dream of going back to school and beating up on teacher has come true although this alumnus operated at long range...
...Robin Hood's Head. Italy's pretext for stirring up trouble with Greece was the murder, some time in the last month, of an Albanian named Daout Hoggia. The Italian press claimed that Hoggia, an irredentist and a "sort of Robin Hood," had been killed by Greeks, who chopped off his head and displayed it as a warning in villages where Albanian minorities live. The Greeks said that Hoggia was a bandit, that he was killed by fellow Albanians who fled to Greece, that so far as they knew his head was still on his corpse. Slim...
...expected to total 3,500,000 people from June 1 to Labor Day. Typical figures elsewhere: 300,000 at Manhattan's Stadium; 123,000 for twelve free concerts in Washington; 76,000 for 24 at Chicago's Ravinia; 132,000 for 33 at Philadelphia's Robin Hood Dell...
...dates each. Flagstad drew 225,000 to Grant Park, 20,000 to Manhattan's Stadium, but only 3,000 on a hot night in Philadelphia's Dell. Oscar Levant's fame in Information Please is paying out. He had four engagements, drew 10,000 at Robin Hood Dell. Marian Anderson brought the Stadium its top audience, 23,000 customers. Last week Baritone John Charles Thomas and 8,000 other musicians, including a 2,000-piece band, packed 100,000 people in Soldier Field for the annual Chicagoland Music Festival (admission...
...leaders were filled with anything but Joy and Bliss. Indicted in Los Angeles (U. S. crazy-cult headquarters) for mail frauds were 24 of them, headed by Mrs. Edna Wheeler Ballard ("alias Joan of Arc, Jesus and Lotus Ray King") and Donald Ballard ("alias Edona Eros, Robin Hood and Lafayette...