Word: loon
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Said Historian Hendrik Willem van Loon: "The names of wars, like war slogans and war songs, are not made, they are born. Something may happen at a moment's notice which will give us the name. Until then we can't create one artificially...
TIME'S account of the fall of Singapore, especially the paragraphs headed "Whose fault?" certainly makes Hendrik Willem van Loon out to be a prophet...
...Loon's Geography, published in 1932, he closes chapter XXXVI as follows...
...Biggest-selling among these booklets (price 50?) are: a quixotic Christmas story about a dog named Lulu illustrated by Cartoonist Jane Miller; an anecdotal account of a Christmas party in the bleak Alaskan wilderness by Rockwell Kent; a book of Van Loony pictures and Christmas carols by Hendrik van Loon and Pianist Grace Castagnetta...
Despite continuing headaches, Traffic Victim Fritz Kreisler was able to leave his bed for a few minutes each day, listened to symphonies on the radio....Massive Hendrik Willem van Loon (The Story of Mankind) went to work for the Government, boosting defense bonds....Shakespearean Maurice Evans became a full-fledged American citizen....A daughter was born to Radio Songstress Benay Venuta and Armand S. Deutsch....James Aloysius Farley, 53, celebrated his birthday at a Giants-Dodgers ball game: the Dionne Quintuplets, 7, celebrated at home...