Word: pinion
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Pinion's Rainbow (book by E. Y. Harburg & Fred Saidy; music & lyrics by Burton Lane and Mr. Harburg; produced by Lee Sabinson & William R. Katzell) is an apt title for a show where frequently rain is falling and the sun is shining at the same time. It is decidedly brighter than most musicals, and it might have been one of the brightest of them all; but its virtues can never quite shake themselves free of its faults...
...Christmas comes but once a year. . ." and with it, this year, comes a diversity of pinion as to what in the nature of House entertainment, constitutes Christmas cheer...
...then to defeat the formidable forces still intact near the city. Below Moscow the preliminary disintegration of Germany's southern positions and communications proceeded: the Russians retook the important railway center of Kamensk, Voronezh and pressed on Voroshilovgrad, advanced from north and south toward the German's pinion position at Rostov. The fall of Salsk and Armavir gave the Red Army a tighter hold upon the railways of the Caucasus, increased the prospect that the retiring Axis forces there can only retreat across the Black Sea into the Crimea. Ever nearer was a Russian thrust into the Germans...