Word: laking
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Hold That Blonde," infested with both Bracken and Veronica Lake, supplies two answers to this question. In the first place, it is a source of endless pleasure to see Bracken hanging by his finger tips from about the eightieth floor of a New York skyscraper while his hands are pounded by a drunk with a cane. The tragic outcome of the scene (Bracken doesn't fall), while anticlimactic, fails to take the edge off the prospect of his immediate and horrible death...
...this particular picture Bracken is a kleptomaniac, and Miss Lake gets mixed up in the proceedings, along with the Romanoff diamond necklace, in a complicated manner. Dozens of gangsters run in and out, and a psychiatrist who looks like one of those wartime Germans with glass eyes makes a brief but impressive appearance...
Strange things were done. The state, hot for progress of a sort, phlegmatically prepared to tear down 21 apartments, a hotel, 382 houses to make way for a new superhighway. There were rumors: Los Angeles heard that hundreds of Japs were about to descend from Tule Lake, seeking bed & board. Then 1,500 members of the Los Angeles Apartment House Association held a meeting to abuse the OPA, ended up by deciding to take no less than 21,474 apartments off the rental market...
...Major station allocations: seven each to New York, Chicago, Los Angeles; six to San Francisco; five each to Boston, Cleveland, Denver, Detroit, Indianapolis, Memphis, New Orleans, Portland, Ore., St. Louis, Salt Lake City, San Antonio, Spokane, Schenectady; four each to 42 other cities...
Presbyterian missionary, "Mr. Mac" came to the U.S. at ten, eight years later en tered Princeton's class of 1896. He was teaching English at Lake Forest College when Wilson invited him to Princeton...