Word: palmed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...never been more successful in evoking the atmosphere and "feel" of a particular place, be it the unending bleakness of West Philadelphia, or the strident shrillness of a chromium-and-glass bar. His only mistake is unbelievably bad. In the otherwise excellent payroll robbery scene, the presence of palm trees in the background make the fact that it ostensibly occurs in Hackensack, N. J., a little tough to take...
...airy villa, with modern bath, electric and charcoal kitchen, and a gallery (porch) with a view of one of the most breath-taking harbors west of Naples, cost $60 a month. For $150 a month the lotus-eater got the sort of house awed tourists peer at in Palm Beach-shady, parklike grounds on the mountainside, a sweeping gallery on which a hundred people could be entertained at cocktails, a tile swimming pool. Often the lower-priced houses had swimming pools...
Last week the baron and about 130 of his brainy countrymen were at Sukhum, on the Black Sea coast of the Caucasus. Well-fed, well-paid and well-treated, they live in a comfortable manor house, surrounded by palm trees and fragrant eucalyptus gardens. A mile away is their laboratory, where they work with a roughly equal number of Russian colleagues on an intensive program of atomic research...
...time, but. . . says: 'I am not in love with Frank and he is not in love with me. I have never in my life broken up a home.' " Then, said Louella, Lana wept. At week's end, Frankie was reported cooling off at California's Palm Springs...
...duties at the Boston Navy Yard. In 1929, '30, and '32 he was in charge of three solar eclipse expeditions sponsored by the U. S. Naval Observatory. While on the first of these expeditions, he was adopted by the High Chief of Toto-fili and given as acre of palm trees on Niuafood Island...