Word: polye
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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-Because "Frisco" is a contraction abhorrent to all San Franciscans, roly-poly Mayor Angelo Rossi sped to Hollywood to take issue with 20th Century-Fox, about to release a picture called Hello, Frisco, Hello. Upshot: the mayor got a hundred feet of prelude film in which to express his disapproval...
"I spent considerable time trying to discover the reason for the enemy's fanatical refusal to surrender, even when the individual's position is entirely hopeless," said CBS's roly-poly Correspondent William J. Dunn Jr. "Undoubtedly religious teachings about the glories of dying in battle provide...
At Rollins, where he scandalized folks by going swimming in white trunks, and at Black Mountain, where he used to take long walks in the woods with an escort of five dogs, roly-poly Professor Rice cut a slightly comic figure. But there was nothing comic about his mind. A...
Died. Harold Keates Hales, 74, eccentric donor of the Hales Blue Riband Trophy for speed crossings by transatlantic liners; by accidental drowning in the Thames; near Shepperton-on-Thames, England. He was a roly-poly little china merchant who saved his money for 40 years in order to have an...
Unruffled, Stokowski leaped to the podium, introduced the guest of honor, Mme. Ivy Litvinoff, wife of Russia's roly-poly Ambassador. The soldiers were asked to sing the Soviet national anthem (The Internationale). Most of the men had never heard the words.