Word: peppered
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...British circuit was tougher, with Hope & Company (Comic Jack Pepper substituting for Jerry Colonna) "resting" from camp shows by bobbing up in hospitals, dropping in on ack-ack crews, sloshing across rainswept heaths to entertain soldiers on maneuvers. Hope's gags got around so fast he had to keep changing them, and he and Scriptwriter Hal Block ground out new ones in bumpy transit, or in hotel rooms long past midnight...
Looking just about as active as it ever did is the Post-War Council. It has held one forum with Senator Pepper on the rostrum, and is planning several others, one for this week. Meanwhile, the language clubs have been going along pretty well; a new French club may be formed as a revolt against the exclusive, strictly French-speaking Cercle Francais...
...Tuesday meeting will be the second public meeting given by the Council on Post-war Problems this summer, the first one being the Emerson Hall meeting of July 9 at which Senator Claude Pepper of Florida expressed his views on the Post-war situation...
Describing the League of Nations as the furthest step the world has ever taken in international relations, Pepper stressed the fact that we must keep striving until a working organization has been established...
According to Pepper, the League of Nations was too rigid to allow effective functioning, whereas other confederations have been too weak to form a real connecting link between its members. The real problem, Pepper concluded, is to determine at what point the world situation can be effectively stabilized...