Word: rediscoverers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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But the Marx brothers are survivals of a vanishing era. They, together with buffoons Bobby Clark and Bert Lahr, and screenmen Laurel and Hardy, are the last of a unique school of slapstick comedians. Spawned in old-time vaudeville and burlesque, the brothers excel in the highly specialized arts of...
But when Rubens died in 1640, the business died with him. Nine years later his house was leased to an Englishman in exile who turned it into a riding stable. In 1672 Antwerp's Burgomaster tried to buy it for the town, but the price was too high and...
"Nothing the peoples of Europehave produced is worth the first known poem that appeared among them. Perhaps they will yet rediscover the epic genius, when they learn that there is no refuge from fate, learn not to admire force, not to hate the enemy, nor to scorn the unfortunate. How...
Rape & Heat. Chicago papers announced a "rape wave" in suburban Evanston. Actually, rape had increased only slightly, but there was now more space in which to write about it. The Seattle Post-Intelligencer sent a reporter to "rediscover" the State of Washington, another to look up kinfolk of Seattle Scandinavians...
Military Voyage. Boarding a Navy heavy cruiser, a one-year-old veteran of 15 Pacific engagements, the President left San Diego Naval base the day after his Fourth Term acceptance speech, to rediscover the Pacific War. He lolled and rested for five days as the big grey ship plowed westward...