Word: notted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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*DeMille's 68 movies in the 36 years since he made the first feature-length film (The Squaw Man) have cost an approximate total of $33 million (not including advertising expenses). Thus far, the first 67 have grossed $562 million.
The 1st U.S. Marine Division was the first U.S. division to take the offensive in War II. It went into the boondocks as a brigade in the fall of 1940 and did not come out until it licked the Japanese at Guadalcanal two years later. Between times the division learned...
Stern as the battle proved to be, Gloucester was not as bad as the next "rest camp," Pavuvu, and neither-in some ways-was Peleliu, where the division again caught the full fury of war in the Pacific. Pavuvu is a stinking, rat-infested little island in the Solomons, fit...
Manners for White Women. Finally, on Pavuvu, part of the division was marked for rotation. Hints on good manners were printed (anonymously) for those going home after two years in the South Seas: "Say 'Please pass the butter.' You DO NOT say, 'Throw down the grease ...'...
Financial Statement. In Abilene, Texas, after four burglaries at his St. Paul Methodist Church, Pastor Earl Hamlett announced through the columns of the Reporter News: "We do not keep our collection money in the church safe . . . Pickings [there] are either very slim or nonexistent and never worth the trouble, regardless...