Word: oak
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...forbidden "City of the Atomic Bomb" (Oak Ridge, Tenn.) looked the same last week as it had 14 months ago when its product smashed Hiroshima. Its slapdash houses were better painted, its hillbilly help more sophisticated. But MPs still patrolled its "perimeter." Scientists still bit their tongues in midsentence, lest a secret pop out, and the gigantic, hidden plants still ground out U-235. The chief business was still atomic...
...Algonquin became a Manhattan institution, and gave birth to other institutions. Most famed offspring: the Round Table, "a crowd of unusually agreeable folk": Alexander Woollcott, George S. Kaufman, "F.P.A.", Robert Benchley, Dorothy Parker, Heywood Broun. In the twenties, they lunched together in the Oak Room. But when they died or drifted away, there were always younger wits to dine in the Oak Room and younger actors to sleep where John Barrymore had slept. Despite occasional rough going, the Algonquin usually earned a profit (last year...
...York and Pennsylvania have more). Of Ohio's 44, little Kenyon, in tiny Gambier, is one of the oldest, best-known, and best-looking. Kenyon (chartered in 1824) came into the world when Philander Chase, the horse-riding Episcopal Bishop of Ohio, stood on top of an oak-wooded hill in 1825 and announced to the wilderness: "This will...
Meanwhile, in Bath, a National Wheel Racing Mouse Club was organized. Founder Laurie Jackson had already enrolled 48 members, all adults who presumably could be trusted not to ginger up their mice. For a race track they had chartered the "Royal Oak," a hall attached to a Bath pub. In Mouse Monthly, chief spokesman for the N.W.R.M.C., Britons learned more about mouse wheel racing: the track is twelve feet long and has six runways. The mice, one to a runway, propel diminutive wheels, by trotting on a two-inch treadpath. Entry fee for each race: two shillings sixpence. All mice...
Young Miss O'Brien, speaking her broguish lines with considerable skill, plays an Irish orphan who has the monumental task of softening up three wealthy, crotchety old men (Banker Edward Arnold, Doctor Lionel Barrymore, Judge Lewis Stone). She owns a piece of property containing an ancient oak tree, which happens to be the home of her friends, the Wee People. Her three selfish, unimaginative guardians want to get rid of the property, uproot the tree. And dispossess the pixies? Not as long as Margaret and her sweet old drunken manservant (Thomas Mitchell) can prevent...