Word: killinger
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Looking up from the unreal war news in his paper, a citizen could turn up images of U.S. life as disjointed as the visions of a fever: a 16-year-old boy, running away with two girls, 15 and 14, confessed killing a North Carolina carpenter because he wanted his...
While the Metropolitan orchestra placidly unfolded the famed "heavenly lengths" of Schubert's Seventh Symphony, the Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo toe-danced the Greek legend of Theseus killing the virgin-devouring Minotaur, and finding his way out of the monster's labyrinth by following Ariadne's...
Fritz Kreisler is composing a new University of Wisconsin song. Dancer Josephine Baker, the dark-brown toast of Paris, moved to French Morocco for the duration. With the Newport season nearly over, Torchsinger Gertrude Niesen spent a night in her new $2,500,000 mansion, registered in town as a...
The Chinese in occupied China last week celebrated Jo Ee Ba in the fashion the decade had set. A bomb wrecked the Japanese-operated radio station at Shanghai. Two Japanese merchants were shot in the International Settlement there. A bomb let go in Nanking's Central Railway Station, killing...
Like the troops the correspondents on each side were subject to capture, killing (by decision of an umpire). Reckless "bravery" did not pay. If captured, pressmen were trucked away to the enemy's prison camp, often 200 miles behind the lines, sometimes a full day's drive on...