Word: laurels
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...liner Italia steamed into New York harbor last week with some unwanted cargo-six stowaways and a wayward Philadelphia war veteran named George Saddich. Saddich, complained Captain Ugo Chinca, had taken to throwing things overboard: ten fire hoses, six fancy ashtrays, two fire extinguishers, ten 50-lb. potted laurel trees, several dishes-and himself. Of all these, only Saddich was recovered from...
...contemporary Mississippi, In My Father's House, and The Gauntlet (TIME, Dec. 24, 1945), which sold 800,000 copies. In the midst of writing Tomorrow We Reap, which carries the Dabney clan beyond 1893, he bogged down, doubted that he could finish the book. Alabama-born James Childers (Laurel and Straw), an Air Force colonel in World War II and a Dabney fan, volunteered to help him. The result is unspectacular, although followers of the Dabneys will want to read it to find out what happened to the grandchildren and great-grandchildren. It is a more orderly and down...
Dworkin, Ronald Myles of 167 Laurel Avenue, Providence, R. I.; Classical High, Providence, Hammer, Louis Zelig of 324 West Main Street, Norwich, Conn.; Norwich Free Academy. Kaiser, Walter Jacob of 285 Southwest Street, Bellevue, Ohio; Phillips Academy, Andover, Mass. Kanter, Carl Irwin of 23 Abbott Avenue, Danbury, Conn.; Danbury High...
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Plautus, done in the right spirit, can't fail to be amusing. You don't have to be a student of the Classics, you don't really need Latin at all to appreciate and guffaw at his comedy. The Marx Brothers and Laurel and Hardy have been successful at the same type of comedy for years, a slapstick variety with humor arising from situation and double-meanings rather than from plot intricacies. That is the type of humor in "The Braggart Warrior." Briefly, a soldier with a bigger mouth than a sword has one woman and would woo another...