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...Eighth Army trudged into Gessapolina, a hilltop hamlet on Italy's Adriatic flank. War had wrecked the terraced cluster of dwellings, scattered their brick walls, shattered their oaken rafters. Through the debris, toward Allied soldiers gathered at the municipal piazza hurried five Italians. One of them paused to wash his hands in the piazza's muddy fountain. Another cried...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Battlefronts: Tale of a Pig | 1/17/1944 | See Source »

John Galsworthy, oaken novelist, left an appropriate mansion in London when he died in 1933. Its furnishings have just been sold. The Nobel Prizewinner's favorite armchair brought only ?21; his desk...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Winners . . . | 1/3/1944 | See Source »

...walls are littered with drawings by F. G. Attwood, James Montgomery Flagg, Gluyas Williams, Larz Anderson, and other ex-editors. Their carved signatures may be read in the oaken dining table...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Circling the Square | 11/12/1943 | See Source »

Flash! Ensign Robert Oaken wishes to purchase one beautiful engagement ring for one beautiful blonde. Anyone know anyone in the business? You can't trust your own uncle on them things these days...

Author: By M. J. Roth, | Title: STRAIGHT DOPE | 7/9/1943 | See Source »

...Oaken Pump...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Harvard Rich in Tradition | 9/25/1942 | See Source »

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