Word: monica
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...settle there since 1897, when, recovering from pneumonia, she spent a summer at a rest camp high up on San Jacinto. The camp owner had pointed to the scrub-covered desert below and said: "There's the place to spend the winter." Her father, a hotelkeeper in Santa Monica, laughed at Nellie's notion that Palm Springs would boom if it had a good boarding house; you couldn't even get to it on the railroad. Nellie reminded him that they had come West from Indiana by ox-wagon. "All the place needs is comfortable accommodations...
...Santa Monica, Calif...
Fish Story. Off Santa Monica, Calif., Fishermen Woodrow Wakatsuki and Katsumi Nishitawa had a wonderful catch-they kept hauling in the mackerel till the weight of the fish sank the boat...
Died. Hugh John Lofting, 61, English born storyteller whose Dr. Doolittle series (about a kind country doctor and his talkative animal friends) has entertained children for nearly three decades; of a liver ailment; in Santa Monica, Calif...
...Lion Feuchtwanger is a professional hand at this and a capable one. Writing in pre-Hitler Germany, he used medieval material in The Ugly Duchess, 18th Century Germany in Power (his first U.S. success), 1st Century Rome in his Josephus trilogy. He has worked on Proud Destiny in Santa Monica, where he settled after fleeing Europe in 1940, and the novel smells faintly of the Hollywood atmosphere in which it was composed. The period sets are painstaking, the main characters are photogenic. With no strain on his attention, the reader can savor from one large dish a thousand tidbits...