Word: laking
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Once Frank Knox had his own paper-the Lake Superior Journal, which he got with $500 capital, a partner, and judicious borrowing-he went to town. He outslugged and outsmarted the rival newspaper, made enough money to move on to bigger things. He founded a new paper in Manchester, N.H.-then jumped into the big money by becoming general manager of all Hearstpapers at $150,000 a year. He finally wound up as publisher of the respectable and even distinguished Chicago Daily News...
...sheer blue ice. Sun-melted ice sucked down the roadway. The engineers scraped the moss back, over the ice, put a corduroy planking on top and let nature freeze a solid roadbed. Pushing out of Whitehorse and Slana, one group paused briefly one afternoon on the shore of Kluane Lake at the foot of 19,000-foot peaks. Beside the log cabin of Trapper Hayden and his half-breed Indian wife the Engineer band played. A young private rose and sang the marching song of the road: Squaws along the Yukon Are Good Enough...
...bush the only recreation is hunting and fishing-on special rights given them by the Yukon territorial government. Doughboys hunt to vary meals of corned beef, potatoes, lemonade, carrots, preserves and dried eggs, by adding moose and bear steaks, lake trout, spruce partridge, ptarm'gan, grouse, venison. At Swan Lake, for lack of regular tackle a Signal Corps man made a line from telephone wires, hammered a fishing spoon out of a tin can and brought in strings of fat trout over the side of an assault boat. Others knock the heads off the foolish spruce partridge (Yukon chicken...
...course of true love continued its proverbial twisting path yesterday, at least as far as the Wellesley and Harvard Freshmen were concerned, when the proposed railroad excursion to the environs of Lake Waban ran a foul of the unsettled conditions that have accompanied Wellesley's wartime acceleration...
...effectively stalks his way through a difficult and interesting role, with various and sundry saboteur doing their darndest to stop him. Ladd himself makes the picture what it is, and his sensitive portrayal of a different kind of ruthless killer marks him an actor to be watched. Veronica Lake is here, too. There must be something nice to say about her presence in the film, but all we can think of right now is--well, Veronica Lake is here...