Word: laurels
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...wrote George Bernard Shaw, 89, of Artist George Fredric Watts, who would be 137 if alive today. Last week a British biography of Watts arrived in the U.S. (The Laurel and the Thorn, by Ronald Chapman). Along with it came a Shavian review in the London Sunday Observer. The book proved that it took six women to give frail, flowing-haired Painter Watts the feather bed existence his art required. Shaw's review proved that one of the six, auburn-haired actress Ellen Terry, means a lot more to 89-year-old Shaw-even today-than she ever...
Close to the peak of Old Screamer Mountain, looking out over the foothills of Georgia's Blue Ridge, sits Laurel Falls, a swank camp-school for girls. There for more than 20 years magnetic, pompadoured Lillian (Strange Fruit) Smith has taught a special kind of school. Some 60 well-to-do kids (including, last year, Golfer Robert Tyre Jones's daughters Clara and Ellen) are given, among other things, the facts of life according to the latest precepts of progressive education...
...pressure from the U.S. press. It included the name of Tojo and all his Cabinet (a few of whom might win acquittal) and assorted criminals at large: Lieut. General Masaharu Homma (the Bataan death march), Mark Lewis Streeter (U.S. civilian from Wake who wrote propaganda for Radio Tokyo), Jose Laurel (Filipino quisling), Joseph Meisinger (Gestapo "butcher of Warsaw...
...Tokyo in an airplane, allowed him to set up a "government in exile." As the months passed, many a Filipino guessed that a U.S. bomb had ended his career. But last week steaming, war-shattered Manila heard news of him again. Radio Tokyo blandly announced that President Laurel had decided "in view of Japan's capitulation" to dissolve his government...
Soon, Manila guessed, José Laurel would be returning to his native land-in handcuffs...