Word: resorted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...lusty, gusty was the meeting in the jampacked upstate resort, so great the display of optimism over G.O.P. chances of carrying the State ticket for the first time in two decades that leaders had to caution delegates against overconfidence...
...sprawling resort hotel at French Lick Springs, Ind., famed for Pluto Water, Owner Tom Taggart invited 1,000 rich and prominent Indianans to spend a free weekend. Even the Pluto Water was free. Only expense for each guest: he must buy at least $1,000 in war bonds. The guests outdid themselves. Slapstick Cinecomedians Bud Abbott and Lou Costello conducted an auction. Boldest bid: $103,000 in bonds for a cocker-spaniel pup donated by Cinemactress Irene Dunne. Total sales that weekend in French Lick...
...death of a Moslem police inspector sounded another warning of communal riots. Police had orders to warn crowds to disperse, then use tear gas, then ironbound lathees, then, as a last resort, to fire. Student demonstrators tried to confiscate all hats and neckties-symbols of Western domination-worn by Indians and Europeans in Bombay. Then they seized topees, burned them merrily in street-corner bonfires. This week, with rioting still sporadic, the pressure of an Indian National Congress party boycott and a general slowdown of the war effort faced the British...
Sally O'Neil heads the cast as the stage-struck Boston debutante, whose friends says: "She isn't really ignorant; just dumb." The really juicy part, though, is Gaylord Mason's. He's Norman, the guiding genius of the mad household of actors who will--and do--resort to anything to get the attention of a theatrical producer. He plays the part up to the hilt, with enough vigor and enthusiasm to keep the whole thing going by himself...
...next breath he was threatening that "hidden discontent may burst forth into welcome for the Japanese should the latter land in India." He bluntly disapproved of an unofficial suggestion that the U.S., China and Britain were prepared to underwrite India's post-war self-government. As a last resort, he revealed in his newspaper Harijan, a fast-to-the-death might be his "greatest and most effective weapon...