Word: panama
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Appointed his old friend, Charles Harwood, 60, New York lawyer and onetime district judge in the Panama Canal Zone, to the Governorship of the Virgin Islands...
...putting lonely old men out of their loneliness with a compound of elderberry wine, arsenic, strychnine and cyanide, followed by Christian burial in the cellar. In these obsequies they have been assisted by a potty nephew (John Alexander) who regards himself as Teddy Roosevelt, the cellar as the Panama Canal, the bodies as yellow-fever victims, and the stairway to the second floor as San Juan Hill...
...conditions interrupted Harvard archaeological and anthropological studies in the Near East and Tangler last year, but the Peabody Museum carried out field work in the Solomon Islands, Liberia and the Cameroons, Peru, Panama, Arizona, New Mexico and Arkansas...
...from all the continents of the world, according to the report. Included were primitive materials from the Solomon Islands, a type series of potsherds from India, a set of carved wooden masks from Liberia, Paleolithic and Neolithic specimens from excavations in Tangier, gold-plated copper figurines and pottery from Panama, archaeological material from Central America, and specimens of pottery and carved stone vases from the Uluo Valley, Honduras...
Ethel Merman does four of her Panama Hattie songs for Decca. Fielder's choice...