Word: resorters
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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With his brother Tom (now a Manhattan doctor), Sheen went to Europe to study at the University of Louvain, Belgium. To learn French, they first went to a small resort town where no one spoke any English. Soon afterwards, in a Paris boardinghouse, Sheen met a Frenchwoman who lived on the floor above. In deep distress over the breakup of her home, she told Sheen she was about to commit suicide. Sheen begged her to wait just nine days. She agreed, and for eight evenings Sheen sat with her, talking religion. His French was still so halting that he kept...
Caught In the Closet. Charles Laughton's love of the theater took a quarter-century to find its outlet. He was born in 1899 in the Victoria Hotel in Scarborough, a resort town on the east coast of England. As the eldest of the three sons of hotel-owning Robert and Elizabeth Laughton, he was supposed to follow in their footsteps. But Charles showed his inclination early. He played endlessly with a toy puppet show until his brother Tom, who had built a guillotine out of a camera shutter, beheaded the marionettes. Laughton's next theatrical disaster came...
Even though Adams has its own swimming pool and six squash courts on Linden St., its teams are perennially near the bottom of House competition. The Gold Coasters thus resort to recreation rather than zealous competition. The annual undergraduate-tutor softball game in June is a famed sporting event...
Even though Adams has its own swimming pool and six squash courts on Linden St., its teams are perennially near the bottom of House competition. The Gold Coasters thus resort to recreation rather than zealous competition. The annual undergraduate-tutor softball game in June is a famed sporting event...
Even though Adams has its own swimming pool and six squash courts on Linden St., its teams are perennially near the bottom of House competition. The Gold Coasters thus resort to recreation rather than zealous competition. The annual undergraduate-tutor softball game in June is a famed sporting event...