Word: pints
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...with wounded. The unhurt were brokenhearted. Long afterward their general sat, staring sadly at the hill from his observation post. Crown Prince Umberto, who had been there at the start, had already left. Later he flew over the German lines in a tiny, vulnerable U.S. observation plane. Like his pint-sized royal father, Umberto was counting on this new army to remove some of the tarnish from the House of Savoy...
...glad to be back I went down to the blood bank and gave a pint of blood. . . . Edward Arnold was there. He doesn't give a pint, he just asks what they need. W. C. Fields was there too. He donated a fifth...
Leverett Saltonstall, lantern-jawed Governor of Massachusetts, was brought forward by local Red Cross workers as the champion gubernatorial blood donor. He had just tinted their bank with his fourth pint of some of Boston's bluest blood...
Died. Lorenz Hart, 48, lyric half of Rodgers & Hart, habitual hit-tunesmiths; in Manhattan. To Richard Rodgers' swingful songs pint-sized, cigar-mangling Hart had joined his agile verses more than 1,000 times, enlivened more than 25 Broadway shows, including Pol Joey, On Your Toes, The Boys from Syracuse, A Connecticut Yankee...
...They seemed to find plenty to justify the American's screaming red headlines: highjackings running up to $100,000 a month, a wave of liquor-store holdups, petty racketeers glad to blab about Michigan farmers who "buy anything short of a hair rinse," bellhops getting $12-15 a Pint from hotel guests...