Word: loree
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...troops in U.S. uniforms and equipment complete to dog tags. German tanks and trucks were marked with American stars. The deception was highly successful and forced U.S. Military Police to make time-consuming checks of all vehicles using the roads in northern France and Belgium. American slang and American lore became the one sure test to pass...
Died. Philip Ainsworth Means, 52, cautious, round-faced anthropologist-ex-explorer, Inca lore expert, speculator about "the most enigmatic and puzzling building in the U.S.," the Newport, R.I. "Old Stone Mill'';* of diabetes; in Boston...
...Britain's 45,000 gypsies were going to have to mend their ways-if Professor R. H. Angold of Britain's Gypsy Lore Society had anything to say about it. Noting that Britain's postwar plans take no account of gypsies. Professor Angold demanded that henceforth Britain's gypsies be regarded as useful, not just romantic, citizens...
Thomas Hart Benton, talkative Missouri painter, in Manhattan for the tenth-anniversary exhibition of the Associated American Artists Galleries, unburdened himself of some favorite gripes. He said he went west ten years ago to paint the lore of the U.S. pioneers, was disappointed because people did not support his work. Said he: "Hell, the group controlling the cultural institutions out there . . . repudiated me. They are rich and a rich man doesn't want to be reminded that his backgrounds are mules and manure. He doesn't want a Benton hanging on his walls; he wants a Van Dyck...
Monkey, whose name was not clearly pronounced even by lover-of-lore Sabu, turned in very neat job of errand running and needle-threading at the proper moments, while "King Cobra's" slenderizing away matched that of the "High-Priestess" herself, although it is difficult to say which inspired which...