Word: panama
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...felt no older than when he came to the Senate in 1935. He had lunch with his staff in the White House mess, a dinner party, with Mrs. Truman and Daughter Margaret along, at Washington's swank F Street Club. Among his birthday presents: three dozen ties, a Panama hat, 63 roses and congressional talk of something more substantial-a pension of $50,000 a year on retirement. After paying taxes and White House operating expenses, he had only about $4,200 left of his $75,000 yearly salary. But delivery of that gift was uncertain...
...Eire, Norway, Belgium, Venezuela, Colombia, Guatemala and Panama (which has no army...
...know where Smuts had found such a lovely feather. "It's from my hat," said the Queen sweetly. As a reward for gallantry beyond the call of duty, King George VI placed the feather proudly in the hatband of his South African Prime Minister's battered panama...
...Benny Goodman quit when Pollack bawled them out one night for coming to work in dirty shoes. After his wife left him in 1932 Jimmy went off to the Caribbean on a cattle boat, lay on the beach for a year, playing in tinny Latin bands from Havana to Panama. In the swing boom of the mid-'30s, he had a brief burst of glory with a band that included such jazz names as George Wettling, Eddie Condon, Pee Wee Russell, Georg Brunis and Mel Powell...
...York City's Bronx Zoo, 10,000 earthworms were dug from under the lion house, packed on ice and hustled to an airport. Their destination: the Panama Canal Zone, where three finicky duckbilled platypuses, en route from Australia to the Bronx Zoo. were fast running short of earthworms, a platypus staple...