Word: peeling
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Colombia. In Colombia, bootblacks shine your shoes with orange peel, everybody always carries an umbrella, people consume "fantastic quantities of Scotch" at $7 a bottle, and are so polite that they call North Americans misteres instead of gringos. President Dr. Eduardo Santos is a newspaperman; the Foreign Minister (Dr. Luis Lopez de Mesa) is a psychological novelist. The first Colombian Author Gunther met was an interviewer who asked: "Do you think that intellectual fermentations, as represented by the left-wing element of the first phase of the first New Deal, are on the whole more beneficial to democracy than otherwise...
Three Fascists escaped in a boat from Peveril Internment Camp near Peel. Paddling their way toward Ireland, they were captured, dunked into Douglas jail, refused permission to return to camp. Their friends at Peveril immediately started a riot in protest. Two hundred odd internees pelted guards with bottles, jugs, brickbats and other loose articles. The riot went on for six hours. Twice an armistice was called for parleying. Each time no terms were reached and the bombardment was resumed...
Dumpling, 58-year-old Elsa Maxwell, professional party-thrower and No. 1 U.S. hedonist, will "do anything for a laugh-with me or at me." (Once, hard-pressed for a laugh, Elsa threw a banana peel on the stairs, laughed and laughed as she bounced black & blue to the bottom.) But one thing she drew the line at was writing a gossip column. So last week she turned columnist...
Incorrigibly plural. I peel and portion...
Robert F. Magill 3L, Indianapolis, Ind.; Joseph Gold grL, London, England; Seymour Kleinman 3L, New York, N. Y.; Edward G. Howard, Jr. 2L, Wilmington, Del.; Fred W. Peel, Jr. 2L, Danville, Ky.; Hervey C. Allen, Jr. 2L, Rockland, Me.; Donald K. Anderson 2L, Phoenix, Ariz.; Lars H. Bengston 3L, Minneapolis, Minn.; Russell S. Bernhard 3L, Chicago, Ill.; John A. Bowler 3L, Bradford, Pa.; William A. Centner 2L, Battle Creek, Mich,; Howard L. Clark 2L, Altadena, Calif.; John D. Cochran 3L, Pittsburgh, Pa.; John P. Corcoran, Jr. 3L, Rhinebeck...