Word: jose
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...troops pushed quickly inland. The firm, dry soil made Mindoro seem like heaven after the mud of Leyte. Within three days they were eleven miles inland and had seized San Jose and its airdromes, while U.S. and Aussie engineers began work on other airfields. On Mindoro's flats and in its valleys there was room, and need, for plenty of them...
...much has been heard of goofer feathers since the blackface team of Moran & Mack made them colloquially famous in the '20s. But as soon as a serious-minded manufacturer, Food Machinery Corp. of San Jose, Calif., can convert from war to peacetime products, the steady production of goofer feathers will become a main feature of a new U.S. industry. Food Machinery Corp. has designed and plans to market a peach de-fuzzing machine. The fuzz from the peaches, wafted by compressed air through a vent in the top of the machine, will become goofer feathers (to be thrown away...
...Jose Ferrer, playing the wily villain of the play, Iago, threatens at various moments to steal the show from Robeson. He portrays with evil genius the wicked shrewdness and the twisted mind that produces the tragedy of "Othello" by mastering the simple strength of the Moor. By a crook of the finger, a clearing of the throat, a lift of the eyebrow, Ferrer probes the depths of the villain's complicated character more thoroughly than could a less capable actor by an entire speech...
...President Sarmiento himself described Uruguay's General Jose Fructuoso Rivera; "[He] began [by] making war upon the government as an outlaw; afterwards he waged war upon the outlaws as a government officer; next upon the King [of Portugal] as a patriot; and later upon the patriots as a peasant; upon the Argentines as a Brazilian chieftain; and upon the Brazilians as an Argentine general; upon [Outlaw] Lavalleja as President; upon President Oribe as a proscribed chieftain; and finally upon [Oribe's] ally as a general of Uruguay...
...come-back. Durante's real-life comeback gives his nostalgic character job much pathos and effect, along with his side-splitting humor. And with Young Man with a Horn Harry James tooting a mean tube, Gracie Allen going through the paces of her one-fingered piano comedy-classic, and Jose Iturbi doing some serious and dignified ivory-tickling, "Two Girls and A Sailor" has something of just about everything...