Word: pal
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...first to die was Kelly's pal, William Wenzel. Then the cook, with $163 in his pockets, stepped casually over the bulwarks, remarking: "I'm just going across the street to get some pineapples." Another shipmate, dying, begged: "Just leave my mouth open when I'm gone so that I can get plenty of water...
Tripoli's story is the old one about the ex-Marine (Minor Watson) who dumps his playboy son (John Payne) on his old sergeant pal (Randolph Scott) to be made a man of. It ambles through a romance with an almost unbearably beautiful nurse (Maureen O'Hara), a fight, a near court-martial, a rescue at sea. They make a Marine out of the young scamp, all right, but it hardly seems worthwhile, cinematically...
...further pages include a cruelly realistic marriage, a gruesome, slapstick try at corpse robbing, harsh satire on civil and priestly extortion, some Swiftian dialogues with a Chinaman on law, religion, medicine, the rich. At length he meets repentance head-on in the dead person of an old pal: "I saw hanging to a tree the impaled corpse of an executed man in his white gown and tall cap adorned with a red cross, his hands bound." Towards the virtuous end of his life Poll finds a new pal-"One Lizárdi . . . a sorry writer in your motherland, known...
Jasper and the Watermelons (George Pal's Puppetoon of a Negro boy and the forbidden fruit; TIME, March...
...self -sufficient is General MacArthur's army that the silencing of Singapore, Batavia and last week of Bandung, princi pal rebroadcasting points for radio to the Far East, made little difference in the amount and quality of programs received on Bataan. Last week, indeed, U.S. contact with the Philippines was peculiarly intimate -even including parts of the islands held by the Japanese...