Word: hy
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Meanwhile the big Eliot line stifled the Puritan attack and has kept its end zone unsullied for the whole season to date. With Backs Hy Brodgen and Bill Garrett and Guard John Wolf benched by injuries from Tuesday's clash, the Navy team was excusing itself after the game, for not running up a bigger score...
...bouncy music of the old song has been discarded for a minor-keyed tune. The refurbished lyrics are by Songwriter Hy Zaret, who recalls: "I first heard The Lone Fish Ball at a party about a year ago. . . . [It] knocked me over. . . . My version was a lot different . . . but I decided I'd like to use some of the old lines. . . . I'd heard that James Russell Lowell had done a version of it. If Lowell can do it, Hy Zaret can . . . I figured...
...town of Saint-Tropez, with tall pink and ocher houses overlooking the protected bay where in peacetime the British Mediterranean Fleet used to anchor on its annual vacation cruise, was captured by a parachute unit dropped there by mistake. In sun-drenched Hyères, where the girls are dark and Saracen and the streets are lined with palms, the Germans still held. Fréjus, where Julius Caesar planted supplies for Gaul, was taken the first day. Saint-Raphael, a modest fishing village gone garish with the trappings of a modern coast resort, was quickly captured, too. But Cannes...
Ships and Bombs. D-day was Aug. 15. It began in cloudy night with a crescent moon shining fitfully through the overcast upon calm sea. Before the day was 30 minutes old the attack began with a commando landing on the Hyères Islands off Cap Bénat-where the now sunken French fleet used to take its exercise on sunny days. A few hours later more parachutists and gliders landed beyond the Monts des Maures -the Moorish Mountains-that rise between Toulon and Saint-Raphael...
...late Edith Wharton's richly furnished villa at Hyères on the Riviera will be sold at public auction next month...