Word: lane
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...dears," said old Mrs. Rabbit one morning, "you may go into the fields or down the lane, but don't go into Mr. McGregor's garden: your Father had an accident there; he was put in a pie by Mrs. McGregor...
...Daily News met two of their favorite newspaper characters. They were there in person: 1) "Oxie O'Rourke," a baggy-pants commentator off West Madison Street who speaks the unimportant man's view of important matters in a side-of-the-mouth argot; 2) fat-chinned Clem Lane, a near-legendary Chicago newspaper man. The two are one & the same...
Seriocomic "Oxie O'Rourke" has lately been taking on more importance than ever in the Daily News (circ. 440,000). Once he was merely a sidelines character, along with his straight man, "Torchnose McGonigle," in Clem Lane's stories of Chicago crime and political shenanigans. Now Clement Quirk Lane has become City Editor, and the Daily News has been ballyhooing him as a Finley Peter Dunne, finding with more ease than accuracy a parallel in Oxie and Torchnose to Dunne's "Mr. Dooley" and "Mr. Hennessy...
Institutional Notes. In Tonbridge, England, a court ruled that a husband has a legal right to keep his wife's relatives out of the house. In Patchogue, L.I., Charles H. Lane forgot his wedding anniversary for the 64th time...
...Allied mission is headed by steel-grey Lieut. General F. N. Mason-MacFar-lane ("Mason Mac"), Governor of Gibraltar; its Chief of Staff is 42-year-old U.S. Brigadier General Maxwell D. Taylor. The mission, the King and Badoglio all profess to have Italy's best interests at heart, but insist that their actions be judged first by the immediate necessity of driving out the Germans. Their joint plan is to broaden the flimsy base of the Badoglio Government by including in it the top leadership of the six political parties which have survived or sprung...